The changes will fine-tune and improve ZIM’s AME service, which will now focus on serving the growing Asia–East Med/Black Sea trade, and offer an enhanced network of dedicated, synchronized links by trade.
The changes to be introduced are as follows :
Asia Med Europe (AME) Service new route will be as follows:
Xiamen – Shanghai – Shenzhen)Da Chan Bay( – Port Kelang – Nhava Sheva – Mundra – Alexandria – Ashdod – Haifa – Mersin – Haifa – Port Kelang – Xiamen. The India Sub-Continent-Europe trade will be served on INE service, with the following rotation:
Hamburg – Antwerp – Tilbury – Nhava Sheva – Mundra – Hamburg
Med-North Europe trade will be served by 2 loops:
North Europe Service 1 (NE1): Felixtowe – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp – Le Havre – Ashdod – Alexandria – Haifa – Ashdod -Valencia – FelixtoweNorth Europe Service 2 (NE2), on the following rotation:
Felixtowe – Rotterdam – Bremerhaven – Antwerp – Haifa – Limassol – Alexandria – Ashdod – Salerno – Felixtowe
Rafi Ben Ari, ZIM VP Shipping, said: “The revised network presents an improved alignment, better suited to our customers’ requirements, with improved coverage, reliability and availability.”