On May 16, COSCO Greece, a 350 meter long ship, took over 6124 TEUs at Lianyungang port and slowly left New Oriental international container berth 30, opening the first voyage of Lianyungang to the US east route.
COSCO Shipping Group upgraded the US east route to the US West China East pendulum route on the basis of the original US West China South Asia route. A total of 18 8500teu-10000teu ships were put into the route. After 126 days, COSCO Shipping Group encircled half the world, tied to 18 ports in Asia, Europe and America, and connected North China, central China and Southeast Asia with major ports in Europe and the United States.
In order to expand the coverage of routes and meet the needs of customers at home and abroad, Lianyungang port has strengthened communication and coordination with COSCO Shipping Group, jointly innovated ideas, made efforts to enlarge the intensive utilization efficiency of the US West ocean route, extended to the US East region, and adjusted the original route diagram from "straight" to "gourd", After connecting with domestic ports, Lianyungang port was opened up to the Southeast Asian port of gameI (Vietnam), Singapore port Piraeus (Greece), New York port and Savannah port on the east coast of the United States, and then the return route was merged into the "Lianyungang West America" route. In this way, Lianyungang and its hinterland can be directly transported to the east of the United States, transferred to Southeast Asia through Singapore, and transferred to the Mediterranean through Piraeus. At the same time, the shipping space for export and import containers will be increased.