News / THE Alliance ends some Cape diversions for network revamp

Hapag-Lloyd had confirmed that THE Alliance vessels deployed on the Asia-North Europe tradelane were no longer making a 3,500 nautical mile diversion around the Cape of Good Hope on their backhaul voyage.

Nevertheless, Hapag-Lloyd has subsequently found it necessary to rescind this affirmation after double-checking with its THEA partners, ONE, Yang Ming and HMM. 

The carrier told The Loadstar this morning that some THEA vessels would still divert around the Cape of Good Hope on their backhaul voyages. 

“We remain routing via the Cape of ...