Direct cargo ship from Chennai to Europe launched
Posted on: 25/Feb/2015 12:31:41 PM
On Tuesday, a direct cargo ship from Chennai to European countries was launched. Chennai Harbour is considered as the gateway of east.
Maersk Line has pulled out its fastest and direct container service - ICON (India Colombo North Europe) - from Chennai to North Europe from yesterday. This is part of the line`s effort to rationalise and optimise the shipping service between the Far-East and the Indian sub-continent to North Europe.
The world`s largest shipping line will merge the ICON service, which was launched in March, with the recently announced Asia-Europe Daily Maersk network, which promises ‘absolute reliability`.
With seven 4,200-TEUs size vessels, the port rotation for the ICON service that commenced in March is Felixstowe, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Salalah, Colombo, Chennai, Colombo, Salalah and back to Felixstowe - from Chennai it takes 21 days to reach Zeebruge. However, with the transhipment in Colombo, the number of days increases by three to four days.
