French container giant CMA-CGM has postponed plans to send some of its so-called megaships on routes to US west coast ports starting in May.
The company blamed its decision on poor trans-Pacific market conditions.
Six of the firm’s ultra large container ships (ULCS) would have plied CMA-CGM’s Pearl River Express route from China to California, calling at the ports of Long Beach and Oakland.
In December 2015 and February 2016 CMA-CGM’s 18,000 teu-capacity Benjamin Franklin, the world’s biggest container ship made test calls at the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland and Seattle.
, the world’s biggest container ship made test calls at the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland and Seattle.
