Charlotte, North Carolina - Maersk Line announces it will adjust its Trans-Pacific 6 service (TP6) to add a direct,
all water call from South Vietnam to the US West Coast. With the direct TP6 call, Maersk Line becomes the first
carrier to introduce the “ Post -P anamax ” class ( 9000 TEU vessels ) to Vietnam . The first sailing will be on the
Mathilde Maersk on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.  The new service will call at the SP-PSA International Terminal
in Vung Tau, Vietnam, a deepwater facility that accommodates larger vessels located 80km south of Ho Chi Minh
City near the mouth of the Cai Mep - Thi Vai River . This direct service will have a Sunday arrival into the   APM
Terminals facility , Los Angeles , California delivering the cargo in just  18  days .   Cargo  availability  will  be  on
 Tuesday. The westbound port rotations will remain unchanged; exports will depart Los Angeles on Thursdays.

“Our customers have requested this direct call and the time is right to include a direct service fromVietnam in our
 network, ” said Bill Woodhour ,  North America Sales  Manager for Maersk Line. “This call will complement our
other Trans-pacific products, giving our customers comprehensive coverage with unmatched service reliability.”

The General Director of Maersk Line in Vietnam, Peter Smidt-Nielsen, shares the excitement in Vietnam about this
 new service, “It gives us great pleasure to be able to meet our customers' demand for a direct call to the US West
Coast .  We  have  worked hard to meet this demand and make it feasible to call Vung Tau with the largest vessels
ever to call a Vietnamese port , and are thrilled to introduce such a competitive and reliable product to this exciting
 and growing market.”

Maersk Line’s TP6 service,which will slow steam beginning with the same sailing,will continue to offer competitive
 product covering the Far East and US West Coast .With  deployment of fourteen vessels, ports of call eastbound
 include  Tanjung Pelepas , Malaysia ;  Vung Tau ,Vietnam;Yantian ,China ; Hong Kong , China and Los Angeles,
California. The westbound rotation will be Los Angeles, California;   Yokohama, Japan; Nagoya, Japan;Shanghai,
 China; Ningbo, China ; Xiamen,China ; Hong Kong,China;Yantian,China, and Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia. South
 Vietnam will be serviced via  transshipment  at Hong Kong by feeder service on the  westbound rotation.Vietnam
service to and from the US East Coast will remain unchanged on the TP3 & TP7 service.   

Exports from Vietnam include garments, footwear, ceramics, furniture, toys, coffee, tea, seafood and consumer goods.