DP World’s UK ports get boost

Global container shipping consortium The Alliance has announced that all of its mainline UK calls will be handled by DP World.

The consortium of container shipping lines — which comprises Hapag Lloyd, K-Line, MOL, NYK Line and Yang Ming — will bring vessels on its FE1, FE2 and FE4 services into DP World Southampton and those on FE3 and FE5 into DP World London Gateway, all of which link Asia and Europe. Vessels deployed on the consortium’s transatlantic AL3, AL4 and AL5 services, will call at DP World Southampton while those on AL1 and AL2 will call into DP World London Gateway. The FE3 and FE5 will be the first regular Asia-Europe services to call at DP World London Gateway.