OREANDA-NEWS. After agreeing to expand the successful G6 Alliance to the Trans-Pacific trade earlier this year, the six member lines announced today the port rotations of their new comprehensive and competitive service portfolio.

The new expanded cooperation will start in May with six coordinated services in the Asia-to-North America East Coast trade. It will deploy more than 50 efficient vessels with capacities between 4,500 and 8,000 TEU to connect about 30 ports in Asia, United States and Canada East Coast, Central America, Caribbean, Indian Sub-continent, Mediterranean and the Middle East to form a fast and reliable service product. Three of the enhanced services will transit the Suez Canal while the other three loops will sail via the Panama Canal. Compared to the existing Trans-Pacific service offerings of The New World Alliance and the Grand Alliance, the total capacity provision of the new service product by the G6 Alliance will be similar.

"The cooperation enables the six member lines to offer an even more comprehensive and tightly meshed service network in this key trade with competitive transit times and increased sailing frequency. Each G6 Alliance member can now offer their clients a significantly increased range of port calls and numerous weekly departures," the member carriers said in a statement.

The six new loops in the Asia-to-North America East Coast trade are the result of the merger and revision of several existing services separately offered by the two alliances today plus one entirely new service, the CEC. The two services APX (The New World Alliance) and PAX (Grand Alliance) will not be affected by the new cooperation and will continue to sail unchanged.