THE Hamburg-based shipping line Hapag-Lloyd will turn its weekly  Asia-Mexico Express Service (AME)into twice weekly service with an amended port rotation from mid-June.

“This will give customers a further improvement in transport capacities with three additional ports calls at Qingdao,Xiamen and Hong Kong,as well as weekly departures from Ensenada in north Mexicl (so far every  two weeks),”a company statement said.

The new AME I service will call at :Qingdao, Ningbo, Shanghai,Busan, Yokohama,Ensenada,Manzanillo (Mexico),lazaro Cardenas, Ensenada, and Yokohama. The first departure is schedule from Ningbo on June 19.

The new AME II service will call at :Xiamen, Hong Kong on June 14, and it will shorten the transit time between Kaohsiung and Lazaro Cardenas to 15 days instead of the present 23 days.

The two services are offered in cooperation with APL.Hapag-Lloyd will deploy six 4,200-TEU ships and APL six 5,100-TUE on the new services.Four Hapag-Lloyd and two APL units, each with 4,200 TEU capacity, have up to now been used on the AME service.