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OCEAN carriers plan to cut 59 sailings in the transpacific from through October, according to Drewry, reports New York's Journal of Commerce.

THE Alliance's suspension of a transpacific service next month adds to the raft of cancelled sailings and other service changes that ocean carriers have planned to induce higher freight rates.

Hapag-Lloyd said the Pacific Northwest 3 (PN3) service it operates under its alliance agreement with Ocean Network Express, Yang Ming and HMM will be suspended following an October 8 sailing from Hong Kong.

In place of the PN3 service, the carrier said its PN2 service would add calls to the Asian ports served by the PN3.

THE Alliance has already announced a series of service changes in September. Over the next three weeks, it plans to blank 12 sailings - two to the Pacific Northwest, five to Southern California and four to the US east coast - accounting for nominal capacity of 119,000 TEU.

2M Alliance partners Mediterranean Shipping Co and Maersk also announced this month that 11 transpacific voyages scheduled between September 25 and October 9 will be blanked, accounting for 108,000 TEU in nominal capacity. Those include four services to Southern California ports, six to the US east coast and one to the Gulf Coast.