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Taiwanese liner operator Wan Hai Lines yesterday announced yesterday it is to increase capacity on its solo Asia-US east coast service that launched on 18 June.
The ten 2,800-4,000 teu ships on the AA7 route will be replaced by eleven 4,600-5,600 teu ships from 3 November.
And it will add three more ports of call to the service.
From 3 November, the rotation will be: Ningbo-Taipei-Xiamen-Shekou-Cai Mep-Port Klang-New York-Charleston-Savannah-Ningbo.
Primarily an intra-Asia carrier, Wan Hai introduced standalone transpacific services to the US west coast ...
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