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Everygreen Marine and Wanhai Lines plan to launch a joint Japan-Thailand Express Service called NSE/NS6,next month.
This fixed-day weekly service will link key ports in Japan with Hongkong,Taiwan,Vietnam and Thailand.

Evergreen will provide two 900-TEU vessels on the NSE/NS6 service,while Wanhai Lines will deploy another 900-TEU ship. The service gets underway in late September when the first depature from Hongkong will be made by the Evergreen vessel,Uni-Ample.

The port rotation for the 21-day service will be:Hongkong(HIT),Tokyo,Yokohama,Osaka,Kaosiung,Hongkong,Ho Chi Minh,Laem Chabang and Hongkong.The NSE/NS6 service has been introduced to cater to increasing customer demand for cargo space, especially northbound from Thailand to Japan, a joint statement said.

The cumulative container throughput of ports in China rose 23.6 per cent year on year over the January through July period, to 62.09 million TEU, according to Xinhua.

Mainland seaports handled 57.6 million TEU of the country’s total container volume, while river ports accounted for 4.49 million TEU.
In July, meanwhile, the country’s ports processed 8.74 TEU.

The port of Shenzhen, comprised of the Yantian, Chiwan and Shekou ports areas, saw its cumulative container throughput increase by 13.9 per cent to 11.35 million TEU from January to July this year, Logistics Week reports.

The southern China port areas also handled 110.16 million tons of cargo over the first seven months of 2007, up 14.3 per cent, figures of Shenzhen Statistics Bureau showed.