News / Port of Southampton to lose call by Maersk/MSC Asia-Europe service

The 2M alliance of Maersk and MSC is to leave the UK port of Southampton.

It has announced it will drop the call at the country’s second largest container gateway by the Asia-Europe AE1/Shogun service the carriers jointly operate.

A spokesman for Maersk told The Loadstar: “The reason for withdrawing the Southampton call was because we could not offer reliable service with the number of port calls in the rotation. Thus, in order to improve our service quality, we decided to take the call out.”

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