South Korea's Sinokor Merchant Marine, together with its subsidiary Heung-A Line, are to combine their South Korea-Japan and South Korea-China services, in a move the companies have confirmed will reduce service duplication.
As a result, the two independently-operated services will be replaced by one, which will be a jointly-operated service.
The new SCX service, jointly-operated by Sinokor/Heung-A Line, will be launched deploying two 1,060/1,118 TEU vessels. Port coverage will be Xiamen, Incheon, Gwangyang, Busan, Huangpu (Guangzhou), Shekou, Shantou and Xiamen.
Separately, Sinokor and Heung-A, which had previously deployed three vessels on a service covering South Korea, northern China and Japan, have reduced capacity on that service to one vessel.
Again, also separately, Sinokor and Heung-A will shortly launch Tohoku-Hokkaido Service 4 (TH4) with a chartered vessel, the 1,100-TEU Pacific Beijing, calling at Busan North Port, Busan New Port, Naoetsu, Akita, Tomakomai and Busan.
