In line with customer needs and continuous effort to develop services, Maersk Line is pleased to announce the new extended version of FM5, our Asia - Red Sea service. We will launch the extended service in March 2007. The new benefits offered by FM5 include:
  • Significantly improved transit time from China to Aqaba (Jordan) by up to seven days
  • A direct service from East and South China to Salalah (Oman), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), and Aqaba
  • More port calls on both the westbound and eastbound service
  • The FM5 service will be launched with the first westbound call in Ningbo (China) on 6 March 2007 with additional port calls at Hong Kong (China) and Aqaba. On the eastbound service we will add calls in Malaysia at Port Klang and Tanjung Pelepas.