Danish transport and logistics company A.P. Möller-Maersk announces that Umm Qarn will be the first vessel to transit the Suez Canal in both directions on the amended AE12 service. Bloomberg News reports this, citing a statement from the company.
The change follows previously announced structural changes to the Gemini services AE5, AE11, AE12 and ME2. AE12 will thereafter call at, among others, Ningbo, Shanghai, the Suez Canal, Algeciras, Koper, Rijeka and Singapore.