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Kolkata, Dec. 18

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

The new service China Pakistan Express (CPX) will provide higher frequency and faster transit times between various Chinese ports and Pakistan’s Karachi and India’s Mundra ports with calls at Malaysian ports, Hong Kong and Singapore. Five vessels of the capacity of 1,200 TEUs each are to be deployed and the port rotation will be Shanghai-Ningbo-Shekou-Singapore-Karachi-Mundra-Penang-Port Kelang-Singapore-Hong Kong-Shanghai on a 35-day roundtrip, the sources point out.

It might be recalled that in May last year OOCL, in partnership with Simatech Shipping, launched Gulf-India-Straits service linking Malaysia and Singapore with Jebel Ali and Bandar Abbas with calls at India’s Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (Jawaharlal Nehru port) and Karachi (Pakistan).

As early as August 2003, OOCL floated its own wholly owned subsidiary in India OOCL (India) Pvt Ltd to have its own network in the country.

Yang Ming line, it is further learnt, will expand its China-Gulf Express (CGX) service to include calls in the Persian Gulf to connect with its Dubai/Umm Qasr, Iraq feeder service DUX.

“CPX and CGX will provide a complete, rapid and punctual network in West Asia, Pakistan and the Indian sub-continent,” the sources add.

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