The first sailing will be with the Mathilde Maersk on May 12.

The service will call at the SP-PSA international Terminal in Vung Tau, a deepwater facility located 80km south of Ho Chi Minh City near the mouth of the Cai Mep – Thi Vai river.

It will have a Wednesday sailing at Vung Tau, providing an optimal Monday evening cargo closing for exporters, and a Sunday arrival into the APM Terminal facility in Los Angeles, California, with a transit time of just 18 days.

Westbound port rotation to import for the US West Coast will remain unchanged.

The westbound rotation will be Los Angeles, California, Yokohama, Nagoya, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Hongkong, Yantian and Tanjung Pelepas.