On 3 November 2008, YICT welcomed the commencement of the Asia-Europe Service 3 (AES3) Westbound service operated by the CKYH Alliance (COSCO, "K"Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin).
CKYH has been recently upgrading this service, progressively increasing the shipping capacities of deployed vessels from 3,400 TEU to 8,200 TEU. As a result of the upgrade, CKYH transferred the service’s port of call in South China to YICT, which has the capability to accommodate and handle the world’s mega vessels.
So far a total of nine vessels from Yang Ming and "K"Line, including four each with a 8,200-TEU capacity, have been deployed to the AES3 service. The service will call at Yantian every Monday and follow a port rotation of Xingang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Singapore, Jeddah, Port Klang, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp.