Evergreen (5 ships), ZIM (3) and China Shipping (1) will start a joint North Europe-Far East service by the end of April.

    The capacity of the nine vessels ranges between 8,000 and 10,000 TEU. They connect Rotterdam with Port Tanjung Pelepas, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Yantian and Port Kelang.

    The service is the third new one in the Europe-Far East trade this year. The other two are by Maersk Line and the CKYH Green Alliance. When all in place the total number of roundtrip slings will number 32, deploying some 300 box ships ranging between 15,600 TEU (Maersk Line) and 3,400 TEU (ZIM), with an average capacity of close to 9,000 TEU.

(Source:http://en.portnews.ru)