Mediterranean Shipping Company commences a co-operation with China Merchants International Terminal (Qingdao) in 2008.

The terminal of China Merchants in Qingdao in the eastern China will be the port of call of three MSC ships. In the alliance, a weekly container carrier to the Black Sea of 6,700 TEU commences services on January 3.

MSC will launch one vessel to Europe and another to the eastern Mediterranean Sea to provide weekly services.

MSC anticipates the three ships to achieve a whole-year traffic of 600,000 TEUs in total.

The terminal has launched two 100,000-tonne container berths. The total throughput is 1.2 million TEUs per year. The co-operation with MSC will develop Qingdao into an international shipping centre in the northeastern Asia.