“China’s busiest cargo port opened its first new foreign-trade shipping lane of 2026 on 9 January, when MSC’s 5 000-TEU ‘MSC Jessenia R’ departed Ningbo for Brisbane and Sydney. Dubbed the ‘Kangaroo Route,’ the weekly loop starts in Qingdao, calls Shanghai and Ningbo, then sails straight to Australia – shaving three days off previous transit times that required stops in Singapore.”
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“On the afternoon of January 8th, as the first Australian cargo ship ‘Mediterranean Jessinia’ slowly docked at the Chuanshan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port successfully opened the first new foreign trade route of 2026- KANGAROO route. This route is opened by Mediterranean Shipping Company, directly connecting Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo and the two major hub ports of Brisbane and Sydney in Australia, providing a new logistics channel for domestic enterprises to expand into the Oceania market.”
” ‘It is reported that the first cargo ship loaded 2000 TEUs of goods in Ningbo, including electronic products, chemical products, daily necessities, etc. It set sail on January 9th and arrived directly at Brisbane Port in Australia 14 days later. The new route is expected to deploy 7 international vessels with a capacity of 4000 TEUs, operating on a weekly basis to better meet the needs of customers in Ningbo and surrounding markets,’ said Zhang Guanghao, Deputy Manager of the Field Department of China Ningbo Ocean Shipping Agency Co., Ltd.”
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“On December 12th, a new ‘container shipping punctuality and cost reduction’ route connecting the Port of Nbo-Zhoushan in China with the Port of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam officially began operation.”