Source:PR News Service

Evergreen is cutting transpacific capacity on the PSW route by almost a third in the upcoming slack season, PR News Service has learned, and there

could be further capacity cuts on the route co-inciding with this move. The PSW cutback follows that on the PNW route, where, as already reported,

Evergreen will merge the Pacific Northwest part of its USWC/Asia/Med (UAM) pendulum service with China Shipping's ANEW1 service

On Evergreen Transpacific Southwest (TPS) service, the present weekly capacity is 6,330 teu, but from late October that will be gradually reduced

to around 4,300 teu by the beginning of December

Four "D" class vessels of 4,200 teu capacity, and a 5,000 teu vessel will begin phasing in to the TPS from the last week of October replacing

five x 6,330 teu vessels which have been deployed on the TPS through this year

Evergreen's 31% drop in capacity on the TPS service is among the highest the line has made on the transpacific through any slack season period,

and comes at a time when already lines within the New World Alliance have confirmed their intention to pull transpacific strings (see earlier reports)

TPS port coverage : Yantian, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Los Angeles, Oakland, Tacoma, Taipei, Yantian