COSCO Shipping announces new sailing schedules of AAC and AWES service from Vietnam to the US

COSCO Shipping's new sailing schedules of AAC and AWES service starts from January 2023, transporting goods directly from Vietnam to the West Coast and East Coast of the United States.

Sailing schedules of AAC and AWES services of COSCO shipping officially announced on Phaata.com (Photo: Phaata)

1. AAC Service: HO CHI MINH CITY / BA RIA VUNG TAU - LONG BEACH - OAKLAND

From January 2023, AAC service would be restructured to improve service quality. The new AAC service will perform rotation Cai Mep – Hai Phong – Long Beach – Cai Mep, sailing on weekly basic, ETA/ETD Cai Mep on every Tue/Wed, ETA/ETD Hai Phong on every Sat/Sat.

On Eastbound, it takes 24 days to Long Beach from Cai Mep and only 21 days from Hai Phong, which is a benchmarkable lead time in the market now. On Westbound, it takes 21 days from Long Beach back to Cai Mep.

VESSEL NAME	COMMON VOYAGE	BA RIA VUNG TAU (CMP06)		XIAMEN (XMN090)		NINGBO (NGB07)		LONG BEACH (LGB01)		OAKLAND (OAK05)
		ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD
		TUE (17:00)	WED (04:00)	TUE (20:00)	WED (20:00)	FRI (15:00)	SUN (03:00)	SAT (17:00)	THU (21:00)	SAT (01:00)	SUN (13:00)
CSCL BOHAI SEA	053E	3-Jan	4-Jan	10-Jan	11-Jan	13-Jan	15-Jan	28-Jan	2-Feb	4-Feb	5-Feb
CSCL SUMMER	051E	10-Jan	11-Jan	17-Jan	18-Jan	20-Jan	22-Jan	4-Feb	9-Feb	11-Feb	12-Feb

SI/VGM cut off

ICD cut off

Port CY cut off

POL

ETB

ETD

ETA Long Beach

(PCT)

FRI 09:00 AM

MON 11:00 AM

TUE 17:00 PM

Cai Mep (TCTT)

TUE

WED

24 days

WED 09:00 AM

THU 17:00 PM

Hai Phong (HICT)

SAT

21 days

Besides that, for Intra Asia trade, AAC also could offer direct service from Cai Mep / Hai Phong to Xiamen and Ningbo with short transit time. From Cai Mep, it takes only 6 days to Xiamen and 9 days to Ningbo. From Hai Phong, the transit time even shorter, 3 days to Xiamen and 6 days to Ningbo.

With current designed rotation, AAC is become one of COSCO’s key services, provides better service integrity to meet customers demand.

2. AWES Service: HO CHI MINH CITY / BA RIA VUNG TAU - NEW YORK - NORFOLK - BOSTON

Start from January 2023, COSCO would launch new direct service ex Cai Mep to US East Coast through Suez Canal, which named AWES, sailing on weekly basic, ETA/ETD Cai Mep on every Friday/Saturday. On Eastbound, it takes 31 days to New York, 33 days to Norfolk, and 36 days to Boston from Cai Mep, offers more direct service options to fit customers exporting plan at most.

VESSEL NAME	COMMON VOYAGE	BA RIA VUNG TAU (CMIT)		SINGAPORE (SIN02)		NEW YORK (NYC01)		NORFOLK (ORF01)		BOSTON (BOS01)
		ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD	ETB	ETD
		TUE (18:00)	SAT (21:00)	THU (06:00)	FRI (02:00)	MON (21:00)	TUE (21:00)	WED (19:30)	THU (19:30)	SAT (07:30)	SAT (19:30)
GOTTFRIED SCHULTE	017E	6-Jan	7-Jan	12-Jan	13-Jan	13-Feb	14-Feb	15-Feb	16-Feb	18-Feb	18-Feb
COSCO JEDDAH	071E	13-Jan	14-Jan	19-Jan	20-Jan	20-Feb	21-Feb	22-Feb	23-Feb	25-Feb	25-Feb
COSCO AUCKLAND		21-Jan	22-Jan	27-Jan	28-Jan	27-Feb	28-Feb	1-Mar	2-Mar	4-Mar	4-Mar

SI/VGM cut off

ICDs cut off

Port CY cut off

POL

ETB

ETD

ETA NYC

(Maher)

ETA ORF

(N.I.T)

ETA BOS

(Conley)

WED 09:00 AM

THU 01:00 AM

FRI 01:00 AM

Cai Mep (TCTT)

FRI

SAT

31 days

33 days

36 days

Furthermore, according to the designed rotation, vessel would call Mundra before US ports, so AWES service also can offer direct service from Cai Mep to Mundra, India as well with transit time 10 days only. This is one of remarkable advantages of the new service.

AWES is COSCO private service, aim to provide more convenient and stable direct services to customers.