en.Wedoany.com Reported - Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) made the first call at Port Everglades, Florida, USA, on July 17, 2026, with its adjusted Empire container route, restoring direct container shipping connections between the port and Asia. Terminal operations for this route are handled by Port Everglades Terminal.

The adjusted port rotation is Shanghai, Ningbo, Busan, New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Port Everglades, Rodman, and then back to Shanghai. In this adjustment, MSC removed calls to the ports of Jacksonville and Miami from the Empire route, replacing them with calls to Norfolk and Port Everglades. Port Everglades is the final port of call for this route before departing the United States.

MSC launched the first voyage of the adjusted route from Shanghai on May 25, 2026, with the primary goal of mitigating the impact of port congestion on schedule reliability. Port Everglades estimates that the maximum capacity of container vessels deployed on this route is approximately 8,800 TEUs.