To meet the blooming requirement from customers, Evergreen and COSCON will each launch a weekly independent service to cover the China/Arabian Persian Gulf route starting from earlier June 2008 to replace the CPG service, jointly operated by Evergreen and COSCON.

Whilst COSCON will deploy five 3400TEU size vessels into China and Persian Gulf service (CPG1) with the rotation as Shanghai-Ningbo-Yantian-Singapore-Jebel Ali-Banda Abbas-Karachi-Singapore-Shanghai.

Evergreen will keep cooperation with COSCON in this trade lane through the slot swap arrangement. With these two new loops, Evergreen and COSCON will be able to widen the range of market visibility in Far East/Middle East trade.