The largest container alliance in the world, 2M Alliance comprising Maersk Line and MSC has announced changes in its AE7/Condor service on North Europe to Far East network.

Maersk said that as a result of high yard density and exceptional waiting time for its vessels in the port of Hamburg, the import call can only be confirmed on basis of berth availability in Hamburg with alternate contingency to discharge import units in Bremerhaven-NTB.

The schedules will be updated with the confirmed import call one week prior to arrival in Germany, according to the Danish carrier.

The affected Hamburg export volumes will be served via Bremerhaven and load onto the corresponding vessel/voyage.

Vessels under review

Week Service Vessel Voyage ETA Bremerhaven ETD Bremerhaven
34
Emma Maersk
766
134E
30 August 2021
1 September 2021
35
Monaco Maersk
Y28
135E
9 September 2021
11 September 2021
36
Eleonora Maersk
785
136E
12 September 2021
15 September 2021
37
Estelle Maersk
772
137E
20 September 2021
22 September 2021
38
Ebba Maersk
788
138E
24 September 2021
26 September 2021

However, MSC has noted that the Port of Bremerhaven also suffers container congestion and, as a result, it is not a guaranteed alternative to the Port of Hamburg anymore.

“Due to the increased waiting time for vessel berthing at Bremerhaven, we may be switching some of the calls back to Hamburg,” stated the Swiss box line.

“We will be confirming and updating our schedule one week before the ETA of the vessels in Germany,” added MSC.

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