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Ocean Alliance announces the cancellation of departures to adjust capacity to declining demand
In Italy, the ports of Genoa, La Spezia and Trieste are affected
June 17, 2020
With regard to the routes connecting Asia with Northern Europe three blank sailings and capacity reductions have been programmed offered in three rotations. For services between Asia and the Mediterranean there are five cancellations of departures and a decrease in capacity of a rotation: in particular, for the MED1 line, Italy touches the ports of Genoa and La Spezia, have been Planned cancellations of westbound route departures originally on June 22 from Qingdao in week 26 and Eastbound departures originating on July 21 from Pire week 30; for the MED 2 line, which in Italy scales the port of Genoa, there are cancellations of westbound departures with origin on July 28 from Qingdao of week 31 and departures eastbound starting on 29 August from Malta in week 35; For Med3 service, which does not scale Italian ports, westbound departure cancellations beginning on July 11 from Pusan of week 28 and departures and/b originating on 7 August from Port Said of week 32; Finally, for the MED5 service, Italy touches the port of Trieste, the westbound departure cancellations on June 9 and July 24 origin from Shanghai in weeks 24 and 29 and eastbound departures 7 July and 11 August with origin from Malta in weeks 28 and 33 and the reduction in the capacity of w/b and/b rotations 28th, respectively, from Shanghai of the week 31 and 25 August from Malta in week 35.
Ocean Alliance for transapacific routes has planned nine blank sailing, for the transatlantic routes a blank sailing and for routes with the Middle East/Red Sea 13 blank sailing and the capacity reduction of two rotations.
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