Routes and transit times
Alliance
- Status
- Verified
ZIM is not in an alliance. It shares vessels and swaps slots with MSC on Asia–US East Coast and Asia–US Gulf services under a three-year agreement that started in February 2025. Hapag-Lloyd agreed to acquire ZIM in February 2026; on the verification date the deal was still under regulatory review and ZIM sailed as an independent carrier.
Alliance partners share vessels and space on their joint services, so a booking with one carrier may sail on a partner’s ship; the bill of lading, the booking and customer service stay with the carrier you booked.
Track a ZIM shipment
Booked through Airlift? Track it by container number or by the Airlift house bill of lading (B/L) number. Booked elsewhere? The tracking page lists ZIM's number formats, what each status means and ZIM's own tracker.
ZIM container tracking →ZIM services on these routes
A carrier service is a carrier’s fixed loop of port calls, such as Hapag-Lloyd’s IEX.
ZIMU-ACSZIMU-NIXZIMU-Z7SZIMU-ZCPZIMU-ZEXZIMU-ZSLZIMU-ZX2ZIMU-ZXBWhere this data comes from
Sailing dates, ships and port calls come from the carriers’ own published schedules and cover departures in the next four weeks; your browser checks the schedule feed again each time you open a page. A carrier service or a ship gets its own page once it has appeared on at least three of those sailings. Transit times labeled “Airlift history” are the typical range on Airlift’s own shipments on that lane. Sea lines on the maps are schematic, not exact tracks.
Schedules as published Sep 18; method last reviewed Sep 18. For planning only. Schedules, routings and ship assignments change without notice, so confirm with your carrier or with Airlift before you book. Nothing on these pages is a rate, a guarantee of space or a guaranteed transit time.