No-frills box start-up set for trans-Pacific launch

TIMING is everything. Starting a new container service across the Pacific would have seemed the height of folly a few months ago, given the desperate straits of this particular trade, which has been worst hit of all by the recession.

But The Containership Company (TCC) will be launching its no-frills, weekly Great Dragon Service between Taicang on the Yangtze River  and southern California, just when volumes are picking up in each direction and US importers and exporters are crying out...

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