Saturday, January 12, 2008

OOCL, Yang Ming to start direct China-Pakistan-India service

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) of Hong Kong and Yang Ming Line of Taiwan will launch a new container shipping service to link China, Pakistan and India from January 17.

The new service, the 'China Pakistan Express' (CPX), will transport sea freight directly from ports in China to Pakistan and Mundra on India's west coast instead of transshipping it via Singapore as it used to do. The port rotation for the new CPX service will be: Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Singapore, Karachi, Mundra, Penang, Port Kelang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, for a 35-day roundtrip. Five 1,200-TEU containerships will be deployed on the service, which will be jointly operated with Yang Ming. Yang Ming will also expand its China-Gulf Express (CGX) to include calls in the Persian Gulf so to connect with its Dubai/Umm Qasr, Iraq feeder service DUX.
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