South Korean feeder operators Korea Marine Transport Company (KMTC Line) and Namsung Shipping have restructured their services that connect South Korea and China and minor Japanese ports.
[s2If is_user_logged_in()]Effective 2 March, KMTC Line and Namsung will introduce a new weekly service, NCQ, that will cover North China, South Korea and minor ports in Japan from Hokkaido in northern Japan to Kyushu in southern Japan.
The NCQ loop will be Qingdao, Dalian, Busan, Niigata, Akita, Tomakomai, Sendai, Onahama, Imari, Busan, Gwangyang and Qingdao. The service, assigned with three ships over a three-week turnaround, will start with KMTC’s owned vessel, the 1,043TEU Sunny Lotus, departing Busan on 2 March.
NCQ will partially replace KMTC Line’s recently suspended KJCQ service, which it operated jointly with Sinokor’s subsidiary Heung-A Line. The latter carrier has launched a solo STS service to carry containers between South Korea and Japan.
KMTC Line and Namsung will also reorganise five of their current South Korea-China-Japan services by rearranging the minor Japanese ports around their services.
While the NCQ service will call at Dalian, the Chinese port will be removed from the carriers’ New China-Japan (NCJ) service, which will call at Tianjin (Xingang) instead.
The revised NCJ service loop will be Tianjin, Qingdao, Busan, Kanazawa, Niigata, Tomakomai, Kushiro, Sendai, Hitachinaka, Busan, Gwangyang and twice weekly calls at Tianjin under the new service structure. That includes the NBP loop that continues to serve the northern Chinese port.
Martina Li
Asia Correspondent
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