News / Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd shuffle port calls on transatlantic services

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With the launch of the Gemini Cooperation less than a fortnight away, partners Maersk Line and Hapag-Lloyd appear to be fine-tuning their slightly varying transatlantic networks.

Yesterday, Maersk announced the mid-February launch of the new TA5, which it described as “a one-way service outside the Gemini Cooperation connecting UK and North Europe to Philadelphia directly”.

The service will have a port rotation of London Gateway-Hamburg-Rotterdam-Antwerp-Philadelphia, and is set to launch with the 19 February arrival of the 2,500 teu Puerto Limon Express ...