Hede (Hong Kong) International Shipping Ltd. next week will launch a premium weekly service from Shanghai to Los Angeles, entering the competitive trans-Pacific market at a time when it is beginning to turn around from a weak 2023.<\/p>\n
The Chinese-owned carrier\u2019s first vessel will depart Shanghai on March 21, with arrival at the West Basin Container Terminal (WBCT) in Los Angeles scheduled for April 3, according to Roger Zhang, COO of Duke Shipping, the exclusive agent for the service.<\/p>\n
The transit time will be 13 days, and with access to a leased chassis fleet at WBCT, containers requiring expedited treatment will be discharged from the vessels directly to chassis so customers will be guaranteed next-day pickup at the terminal, Zhang told the Journal of Commerce.<\/p>\n
\u201cHede is demonstrating its long-term commitment to the trans-Pacific trade by entering it now, before the trade really takes off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hede is a China-based carrier that operates in the domestic and intra-Asia trades, Zhang said.<\/p>\n
According to Infor Nexus, the average transit time from Shanghai to Los Angeles in January, the latest data available, was 15 days, a level that has been unchanged since September.<\/p>\n
Hede\u2019s new service would appear to be a direct challenge to Matson, which operates two express services from China to the US West Coast. Matson last month said those two services carried 34,900 FEUs during the 2023 fourth quarter, a 23% year-over-year gain.<\/p>\n
UWL, the forwarding arm of third-party logistics provider World Group, in May 2022 launched a partnership with multipurpose shipping line Swire Shipping to offer a biweekly express container service from the Port of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam to the Port of Seattle’s T-30 terminal.<\/p>\n
The expedited service will fill a niche for e-commerce and similar shipments that require faster handling, Zhang said. Standard trans-Pacific services have transit times of 14 days or longer, and containers can often sit on the terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach for several days or longer before being picked up by truckers.<\/p>\n
The Hede service will operate from Shanghai to Los Angeles and back to Shanghai, with vessels ranging in size from 3,700 to 4,250 TEUs capacity, Zhang said.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
Mongelluzzo, B. (2024, March 15). Chinese niche carrier to launch Shanghai-Los Angeles Expedited Service Next Week<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/chinese-niche-carrier-launch-shanghai-los-angeles-expedited-service-next-week_20240315.html<\/p>\n Hede (Hong Kong) International Shipping Ltd. next week will launch a premium weekly service from Shanghai to Los Angeles, entering the competitive trans-Pacific market at a time when it is beginning to turn around from a weak 2023. The Chinese-owned carrier\u2019s first vessel will depart Shanghai on March 21, with arrival at the West Basin …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-maritime"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}