The service linksChina, South East Asia, Indiaand the Middle East and is jointlyoperatedbyEmiratesShipping Line (ESL) and OrientOverseasContainer Line (OOCL).
Credit Suisse estimates that 35% of China COSCO's revenue and 32% of ChinaShipping Container Lines' comes from the Asia-Europe route, while earnings from European trade for the country's port operators varies between 7.3% to 34.1%.
Promoters say it is well situated for shipping raw materials from China and the Russian Far East to the rest of Asia, or Asian-made goods across the Trans-Siberian railroad to Europe.