News / Now 2M cuts delay-hit port of Liverpool from calls on transatlantic loop

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The UK port of Liverpool will see calls by the 2M transatlantic loop it won from Felixstowe at the end of last year suspended until mid-May, as Maersk and MSC grapple to improve schedule reliability.

The 2M alliance said that, as a result of bad weather in the North Atlantic compounded by port congestion, it will temporarily suspend the Liverpool and New York calls of its TA2/NEUATL2 transatlantic loop for six and nine weeks, respectively.

According to Alphaliner, the first ship to ...