| August 27, 2009 |
| CKYH and Evergreen Line to Cooperate on U.S. East Coast / |
| Northwest Europe trade |
| August 27th, 2009, - CKYH Alliance (Coscon, "K"LINE, Yang Ming, Hanjin Shipping) and Evergreen Line have announced today that they will be launching a new service in the U.S. East Coast - North West Europe trade effective end of September 2009. |
| Named TAE (Trans Atlantic Express), this new service is a combination of two existing lanes operated by CKYH Alliance and Evergreen Line; TAS1 (Trans Atlantic Service Loop 1) by CKYH and NUE (North Asia - U.S. East Coast - European Pendulum) by Evergreen Line. |
| TAE service will operate with a total of four vessels (loadable capacity around 2400TEU) with CKYH jointly deploying two vessels and two vessels for Evergreen Line. |
| The port rotation is as follows : |
| Antwerp - Bremerhaven - Rotterdam - Le Havre - New York - Norfolk - Charleston - Antwerp. |
| CKYH believes combining these two services will bring more the opportunity to assure our customers have quality service. |
| For further information, please contact: |
| Yu Kurimoto |
| Manager, Planning Team, Container Business Group |
| Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. |
| Tel: +81-3-3595-5309 Fax: +81-3-3595-5288 |