物流巴巴网从美国总统轮船官网获悉，8月24日APL公布将新增亚洲拉丁美洲快运3（Asia Latin America Express 3）服务（简称AE3-AW3），每周将中国、香港、台湾等重要亚洲市场连接到墨西哥和南美洲西岸。
APL拉丁美洲负责人Adeline Franger Chouraqui表示：“该亚洲拉丁美洲快运3航线将进一步增强我们在亚洲和拉丁美洲的航线覆盖，并延伸到南美洲西岸。AE3-AW3以其市场领先的航运时间，突显了APL致力于扩大拉丁美洲的业务，及专注于托运人的货物高速上市的承诺。”
AE3-AW3航线以业界最快的运输时间设计，从宁波到墨西哥、巴拿马和哥伦比亚的航运时间分别仅为18、24和27天，同时也将以圣维森特港口的靠泊，方便南智利的市场准入。
该航线东线服务包括高雄-香港-蛇口-南沙-宁波-曼萨尼约，墨西哥-拉扎罗·卡德纳斯-巴尔博亚-布埃纳文图拉-卡亚俄-圣安东尼奥-圣维森特-高雄。
西线则包括巴尔博亚-布埃纳文图拉-拉扎罗·卡德纳斯-青岛–上海洋山-釜山。
东线首航于8月23日离开高雄，而西线首航预计9月22日从巴尔博亚离港。
原公告如下：
APL today announced the addition of a new weekly Asia Latin America Express 3(AE3-AW3)service that is now connecting China,Hong Kong,Taiwan and other key Asian markets to Mexico and the West Coast South America.
“The Asia Latin America Express 3 service further enhances our Asia-Latin America service coverage,extending it in West Coast South America.Offering the most competitive transit times,the new service underlines APL’s commitment to widen our Latin America presence and take our shippers’cargo to places with a focus on speed to market,”said Adeline Franger Chouraqui,APL Head of Latin America.
Designed with the industry’s fastest transit time from Ningbo to Mexico,Panama and Colombia in just 18,24 and 27 days respectively,the AE3-AW3 service also facilitates market access to the South Chilean market with its port of call at San Vicente.Likewise,westbound shipments on the service from Mexico,Colombia and Panama to Qingdao will take a mere 17,24 and 26 days respectively.
The eastbound rotation of the service include Kaohsiung–Hong Kong–Shekou–Nansha–Ningbo–Manzanillo,Mexico–Lazaro Cardenas–Balboa–Buenaventura–Callao–San Antonio–San Vicente–Kaohsiung.
Port rotation for the westbound lap include Balboa–Buenaventura–Lazaro Cardenas–Qingdao–Yangshan–Busan.
The first sailing of the eastbound service departed Kaohsiung on 23 August while the westbound leg from Balboa will commence on 22 September.
