Evergreen Line and China Shipping Container Lines said they have agreed to cooperate on their Asia-Europe, Asia-Mexico-US East Coast and Asia-US West Coast services commencing June, 2009.

The joint services are: China North Europe (service code: CEM for Evergreen and AEX1 for CSCL) service with a total of eight 8,000 TEU vessels. The first vessel will be 'Xin Hong Kong 0029W' from Qingdao on June 17 with a port rotation: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Felixstowe – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Zeebrugge – Hong Kong – Qingdao.

Asia Mexico US East Coast (service code: AUE2 for Evergreen and AAE1 for CSCL) service with a total of eight 4,000 TEU vessels. The first vessel will be 'ITAL LAGUNA 0001-019E' from Shanghai on June 15 with a port rotation: Shanghai – Hong Kong – Yantian – Lazaro Cardenas – New York – Norfolk – Savannah – Miami – Lazaro Cardenas – Shanghai.

The two lines will share slots on the Asia-US Pacific South West Coast route: Evergreen upgrades its Hong Kong, Taiwan-US West Coast (service code: HTW for Evergreen and AAS for CSCL) service of five 8,000 TEU vessels. The first vessel will be 'EVER CHAMPION 0571-027E' from Kaohsiung on June 16 with a port rotation: Kaohsiung – Xiamen – Hong Kong – Yantian – Los Angeles –Oakland – Kaohsiung.

China Shipping upgrades its North/Central China to US West Coast (service code: CPS for Evergreen and AAC for CSCL) service of five 8,000 TEU vessels. The first vessel will be 'Xin Ou Zhou 0020E' from Qingdao on June 16 with the port rotation: Qingdao – Lian Yun Gang – Shanghai – Ningbo – Pusan – Los Angeles – Oakland – Qingdao.

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