NYK and Hanjin Shipping announce new joint service for Far East Middle East Trade

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In early July, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Hanjin Shipping (HJS) will launch a new joint service, the Far East Middle East Express (FMX) service.

The FMX service will be operated by six 6,200-6,500 TEU vessels. NYK will deploy one vessel and HJS will deploy five vessels for this new joint service. The first sailing will be NYK Aquarius on 7 July 2011, from the port of Pusan.

The ports of call for the 42-day rotation will be as follows: Pusan (Thu/Fri) – Kwangyang (Fri/Sat) – Shanghai (Mon/Mon) – Ningbo (Tue/Wed) – Yantian (Fri/Fri) – Singapore (Tue/Tue) – Colombo (Sat/Sun) – Jebel Ali (Thu/Fri) – Dammam (Sat/Sat) – Bandar Abbas (Mon/Mon) – Karachi (Wed/Thu) – Port Klang (Wed/Wed) – Singapore (Thu/Fri) – Pusan (Thu/Fri).

Calling ports and positions are subject to change.

The FMX will not only provide an express service from Korea and China to the Middle East but also strengthen the service network from the Far East and East Asian countries to the Middle East via Singapore.

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha is one of the world’s leading transportation companies. At the end of March 2011, the NYK Group was operating 827 major ocean vessels, as well as fleets of planes, trains, and trucks.

The company’s shipping fleet includes 143 containerships, 344 bulk carriers, 57 woodchip carriers, 118 car carriers, 86 tankers, 29 LNG carriers, three cruise ships, and 47 other ships.

NYK’s revenue in fiscal 2010 was about $22 billion, and as a group NYK employs about 54,000 people worldwide. NYK is based in Tokyo and has regional headquarters in London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo.

NYK is represented in Sri Lanka by NYK Line Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.