Maersk Announces COVID19 Capacity Adjustment in Transatlantic Services!

In a major development, Maersk has announced that they are suspending their TA4 service as market demand reductions continue in America and Europe, says an article published on their website.

What is it?

Due to market demand reductions in North America and Europe caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges that we are all facing in managing the supply chain, Maersk is working to ensure all challenges are managed in the best way possible along this supply chain including, balancing our network to match reduced demand. We will therefore be seasonally suspending our TA4 service as of week 18 outbound Europe till week 22 outbound Europe, says the press release.

When will it resume?

The services are expected to resume subject to improved market demand to which we will inform you in due course. Maersk will continue to review the demand picture and will continu-ously adjust deployed capacity to match.

Rebooking Cargo To Minimize the Impact

We will be ensuring the impact to our customers is minimized by rebooking the cargo to best available product as there is sufficient capacity available via these alternative services in light of the current environment and it has been decided that ports inducement will take place on the corresponding services to ensure the continuity of current coverage with minimal disrup-tion.

Customers may therefore continue to place bookings with limited disruption.
Please feel free to reach out to your local Maersk Customer Service representatives or check Local Information and Schedules for more details.

TA4 vessel suspension – vessel details

Westbound

Eastbound

Please refer to the following page in order to see the planned inducement calls we are doing to cater best possible for your needs.

Inducement calls on remaining network

Westbound

Eastbound