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Mangalore, Nov 2 Seaways Group, the shipping and logistics service provider, has started coastal cargo movement from New Mangalore Port to Pipavav through its chartered vessel m.v. Kinship Bangar. The first movement began from New Mangalore on Wednesday.

A company release said here that Seaways is providing facility of door-to-door service to WCL Logistics of Bangalore, which is dispatching pig iron cargo of Kudremukh Iron and Steel Company to Pipavav Port.

This connectivity can prove to be of great service to the trade in terms of effective transhipment of cargo, lesser transit time and cost-effectiveness, it said.

Recently, Seaways introduced west coast container feeder service m.v. Kinship Bangar. The vessel connects New Mangalore to Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai Port and Pipavav Port.

Till now, the vessel completed five voyages. Seaways inducted 50 containers in this voyage to carry coastal cargo from New Mangalore Port to Pipavav Port. Simultaneously, Seaways is inducting 50 containers from Pipavav Port to New Mangalore to carry inward coastal cargo, the release added.

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