News / CU Lines extends portfolio and stretches Asia-Europe route to Tilbury

China United Lines (CU Lines), which recently upgraded its Asia-Europe loop to a regular bi-weekly service, has now extended it, adding a call to the UK port of Tilbury.

Originally, the Chinese state-controlled liner operator’s Asia-Europe Express (AEX) service loop was Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Xiamen, Yantian, Ho Chi Minh City, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp.

The Tilbury extension will begin with the voyage departing on 8 July, when the 4,400 teu Ren Jian 25, chartered from Quanzhou Ansheng Shipping, leaves Shanghai.

CULines said, “With the ...