It blamed seasonal patterns for the halting of its Central China to US west coast (CC2) loop.

The service will stop on 31 October until further notice.

An OOCL vessel will be the last to run from Shanghai on that day.

All ports covered will still be served by other weekly G6 strings, however.

It said: “The market environment will be closely monitored for the resumption of the CC2 service accordingly.”

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