China Shipping Container Line Company, the world’s 8th-largest container shipping company by capacity, will begin cargo service to the US Gulf Coast and Florida through a slot charter arrangement on the weekly Pacific Express 3 string operated by CMA-CGM, which will include calls at APM Terminals Mobile, APM Terminals Jacksonville and Miami’s South Florida Container Terminal (SFCT), in which APM Terminals is a joint venture partner with Terminal Link.
Shanghai-based China Shipping Container Line Company currently operates 149 vessels, with a combined total capacity of approximately 560,000 TEUs, ranking 8th globally by this measure. This new China Shipping service which has been named the AAE2 will be made available through a slot charter agreement with French-based CMA-CGM. Ports of call on the AAE2 include Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Busan, in the Far East, and Manzanillo, Panama, in addition to the US ports of Houston, Mobile, Miami and Jacksonville. Vessels range in size from 3,398 TEU to 5,096 TEU capacity.