THE G6 Alliance will cut voyage time by a week to 70 days in total on its existing Asia-Mediterranean Express Service (EUM) by cancelling slow steaming on the eastbound return leg between Hong Kong and Busan.

The alliance had slowed down the EUM by a week from 63 days to 70 days in August, and in January by a further week, to skip one sailing position begun on February 18.

EUM service deploys five vessels of average capacity of 7,161 TEU of which five are provided by OOCL, three by MOL, one by Hapag Lloyd and one voided of sailing. The port rotation will remain Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shenzhen-Shekou, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jeddah, Damietta, Genoa, Marseilles, Barcelona, Valencia, Damietta, Jeddah, Singapore, Hong Kong and back to Busan.

The G6 Alliance comprises Grand Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL as well as New World Alliance members Hyundai, APL and MOL.

The new alliance has co-operated on six Asia-Europe container services since the dropping of its joint LP3 service with each other now offers six Asia-Europe services that include the EUM, and further slowed services by a week on its loops of LP4, LP5, and LP7.