Members of the Grand Alliance group Hapag-Lloyd, MISC Berhad (MISC), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) will be launching a new weekly service - ABX (Asia - Black Sea Express) to cover the Asia-Black Sea Market, reports the press-service of OOCL.

The new service is scheduled to commence from Shanghai in late June 2007.

A total of 7 x 3,000 TEU vessels will be deployed in the new service to cover the following ports: Shanghai - Ningbo - Shekou - Singapore - Damietta - Istanbul - Constanza - Odessa - Izmir - Damietta - Singapore - Shanghai.