News / Maersk Line expands service to more Chinese ports as Myanmar container trade grows

Hutchison's Myanmar International Terminal Thilawa on the outskirts of Yangon

Maersk Line and its intra-Asia arm, MCC Transport, have expanded their direct service linking China and Myanmar by adding the Pearl River gateway ports of Yantian and Hong Kong.

Launched in February 2015, the Intra-Asia 5 (IA5) service now departs from Shanghai and calls at Ningbo, Hong Kong, and Yantian on its way into Yangon, Myanmar, where it calls at two terminals before a string of south-east and north Asia ports on its return leg.

Dawid Sold, Maersk Line country manager for ...