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Booming intra-Asia trade pushes carriers to launch more services

Daniel by Daniel
24/07/2020
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MSC has become the latest shipping line to revamp its intra-Asia service offering amid strengthening China-Asean trade.

From this week, MSC has updated four existing intra-Asia services and is launching a new South-east Asia loop named Seahorse, which links Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore, Jakarta, Yantian, Kaohsiung, Manila, Vung Tau and Laem Chabang.

“Customers are showing increasing demand for new services to move cargo between key locations in Asia,” said the carrier.

“These enhancements to our intra-Asia network offer direct connections and competitive transit times for long-haul cargo from Greater China and South-east Asia, as well as comprehensive port coverage between Indonesia, South China, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.”

Dubbed the largest tradelane in the world, intra-Asia accounts for some 33m teu every year, but in reality comprises hundreds of individual lanes criss-crossing Asia Pacific, the Indian Subcontinent and Australasia.

Between January and April – at the height of the Covid crisis in Asia – some trade data suggested intra-Asia volumes were suffering from ‘lockdown-syndrome’ alongside the major deepsea trades.

However, for China-Asean at least, recent figures show a 5.6% increase in bilateral trade to $299bn during the first-half of the year.

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The South-east Asian trading-bloc surpassed the EU to become China’s largest trading partner for the first time, albeit perhaps temporarily as European economies get back into gear, post-lockdown.

As well as MSC, new services between China and Asean, and intra-Asean, have been launched by other major players in the region. For example, in March, Maersk’s Sealand Asia adjusted two intra-Asia strings to add new direct calls between Indonesia and China; and ONE has increased direct sailings from China, with two new services launching this month to Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Regional carriers have revamped services, too. This month, Thailand’s RCL began a butterfly service between Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, while this Friday, Wan Hai will launch its fourth string between Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand with partner Interasia Lines.

A traditionally competitive market, intra-Asia freight rates have held steady throughout the crisis – unlike the steep rate climbs experienced on the deepsea trades.

“Some mainline carriers are offering promotional rates on intra-Asia lanes, especially where they need boxes to be repositioned,” said Mr Sundara, Asia Pacific ocean freight director at Scan Global Logistics.

He added: “To cope with the peak in transpacific eastbound and Far East westbound trades, intra-Asia movement has been capped to provide priority movement for these mainline east-west trades.

“They are moving backhaul empties into the Far East to ensure empty boxes are quickly released for export. However, we expect these carriers to push harder for intra-Asia trades sometime near the end of the third quarter, although we can still secure rates until the end of September, both as FAK and for named accounts.”

Furthermore, Mr Sundara explains, carriers including Hapag-Lloyd, CNC and Sealand are pushing online spot rates.

“MSC has joined the bandwagon by offering instant quotes. Even though this is not rolled out to intra-Asia trade yet, we expect this to happen as it begins the network upgrade.”

Source: The Load star

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