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At a time when other forwarders are complaining that they are finding space is a major issue for shipments from China to Europe and the USA, UFL’s oceanfreight company - U-Ocean - continues to build on our long-standing links with some of the world’s most important box lines to enhance our growing range of scheduled oceanfreight consolidation services.
We have found that, after six months of falling export traffic from China, volumes to Europe and the USA are now rebounding. This increase in traffic has led to issues with other forwarders finding it difficult to obtain space but UFL can leverage successful associations with lines – such as Maersk where our service contract has been upgraded to Tier One status – to maintain our service standards.
In fact, we are looking to expand our contracts with the lines to develop even more scheduled direct ocean freight services between Hong Kong, Shanghai and a greater range of European hubs, This builds on our proven success with our German agent Alpha Trans with which we have developed strong traffic for the weekly oceanfreight consol between Hong Kong/Shanghai and Munich.