The container carrier APL has expanded its North Asia Philippines Express (NPX) feeder service to cover central China and Manila in the Philippines. The service enhancement includes two weekly calls to Manila from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. According to the line, South China and Hong Kong markets are more effectively served with direct calls to Manila. Enhanced connections also link Philippine markets within Central China and other Asian markets through calls in Kaohsiung. Southeast Asian markets can now connect at Kaohsiung with APL's intra-Asia, Korea China Straits and Japan Thailand Vietnam services. North Asia cargo bound for the Philippines can connect to NPX using KCS and JTV services via Hong Kong. APL will deploy three vessels, each with a capacity of 1,100 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
