FRENCH shipping giant CMA CGM's Singapore-headquartered subsidiary CNC and COSCO have entered into a vessel sharing agreement for CNC's KCS and China 1 services.

The agreement involves five vessels ranging 6,000 to 7,000 TEU that will be deployed on the KCS service and CNC will manage four of them.

KCS has a service rotation of: Xingang, Dalian, Lianyungang, Qingdao, Singapore, Jakarta, Surabaya, Manila and returning to Xingang.

The first sailing will be the m/s Pelion, ETA Tianjin December 29, 2023.

A fleet of four 6,000 TEUs vessels will be deployed on the China 1 (CHN1) service with CNC operating three of them.

The weekly China 1 service calls the ports of: Shanghai, Ningbo, Quanzhou, Shantou, Shekou, Nansha, Jakarta, Surabaya, Davao and returning to Shanghai.

The first sailing of of the CHN1 will be Xin Yantai, ETA Shanghai December 29, 2023.

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