The German liner operator said the decision to omit Portland from its Mediterranean Pacific Service (MPS) was in an effort to improve the schedule integrity.
The last vessel to call at Portland as part of Hapag-Lloyd’s MPS was the 4,250-teu Seaspan Dalian (built 2002) which sailed on 28 March.
Earlier this year, South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping announced it would stop servicing Oregon's only deep water port terminal, too.
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