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Several
new shipping services linking
Northport at Port Klang and new
markets in Africa and S America have
been started recently by global
shipping lines reflecting both
Malaysia’s closer trade ties with
South countries as well as the
emerging importance of Port Klang as
regional transhipment hub.
Long
haul services linking the African
continent recorded strongest growth
with a total of seven shipping lines
mounting new direct connections from
Northport.
Shipping
lines serving directly Northport now
offer the most comprehensive
connections to more than 10 ports in
Africa with a minimum of 15 sailings
per month, up from only four
services per month last year.
The
joint P & O Nedlloyd and Mitsui
OSK Line’s East Africa Asia
Express service has been expanded
with the entry of Delmas Line which
now offers a wider port of coverage
and with bigger capacity vessels.
The
East Africa Asia Express &
Service covers seven east African
ports of Male, Port Victoria,
Mombasa,Tanga, Dar-Es-Salaam, Mtwara
and Port Victoria.
Malaysia
International Shipping Corporation
Bhd has meanwhile mounted a new
service together with PIL and K Line
to South Africa.
The
eastbound weekly service calls
Northport on every Thursday and
connects Port Klang with Durban and
Cape Town directly.
More
recently PIL mounted an independent
East Africa Service.
The
carrier’s three sailings per month
covers Northport (Port Klang),
Colombo, Port Louis, Tamatave,
Mombassa, Dar-Es-salaam, Pasir
Gudang and Singapore.
The
new services to African ports was
followed by new links to the South
America market.
Two
more new liners have mounted direct
service to Port Klang, this includes
Nippon Yusen Kaisha line which has
started a dedicated service to
Brazil effective June 15 this year.
The
service covers a total of five major
ports in Brazil direct from Port
Klang.
The
port of rotation of the Manaus
service covers Northport, Victoria,
Salvador, Suape, Portleza and Manaus.
The
Argentina line, Mombasa-Clan S.A has
announced that it would be
initiating a twice month service -
its first direct service linking
Port Klang with South America.
Other
news shipping services include the
joint service by Japanese K Line and
Taiwanese-owned Yang Ming which
commenced a new weekly pendulum
service with bigger capacity vessels
from Northport to ports in
Europe-Far East- America.
The
westbound pendulum service calls
every Friday at Northport and
linking Port Said, Valencia,
Rotterdam and Hamburg.
The
Eastbound ships calls Northport on
every Tuesday connecting Port Klang,
Singapore, Yantian, Hong Kong,
Xiamen, Long Beach, Oakland, Kobe,
Shanghai, Xingboa, Hong Kong,
Yantian and Singapore.
The
Gulf and Indian sub-continent ports
also continued to receive the
attention of shipping lines.
A
total of nine carriers have mounted
new services, upgraded or re-looped
their services to tap fast growing
volume of box traffic and
transhipment volume between the
Indian ports and Northport and Port
Klang.
The
lines which have started the
services include MISC, Bengal Tiger,
Hyundai Merchant Marine, Samudera
Shipping Line, Advance Container
Lines, K Line PIL, Dongnama and
Shipping Corporation of India.
The
first half of the year saw K Line,
PIL, Dongnama and SCI join hands to
initiate the India Far East Express
service (INDFEX 1) and the carriers
are now said to be looking into the
option of introducing INDFEX 2 with
fast expanding demand from the six
major ports.
The
full port of rotation for INDFEX
eastbound service includes Nhava
Sheva, Colombo, Port Klang,
Singapore and Hong Kong. While on
the westbound the service covers
Pusan, Shanghai, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Port Klang, Colombo and
Nhava Sheva.
Intra-Asian
specialist, Wan Hai line has also
restructured its port of rotation of
its Japan Taiwan Service (JTS),
Korea SEA service (KSS) and China
Middle East service (CMS) effective
second quarter of this year.
The
line, which added a direct service
to Penang Port in its JTS new port
of rotation effective May 22 this
year, plans to introduce a new
service to China soon.
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