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Maersk Line will make its third trial call at Kattupalli International Container Terminal on July 8. Sea Land Champion will arrive at Chennai from Tanjung Palepas (Malaysia) and then go to Kattupalli Port, developed by L&T Shipbuilding, to the north of Kamarajar port in Ennore.
From Kattupalli, the ship will head to Visakhapatnam, and then return to Tanjung Palepas, according to sources.
Big boost Maersk Line made its second trial call at Kattupalli on December 14. Its ship Maersk Derince offloaded containers for a major auto firm in Chennai and loaded containers for Egypt.
Sources said a regular service by Maersk ships will give a big boost for Katupalli port.
The Thailand-Chennai Express Service consortium of NYK & X-Press Feeders announced a regular weekly schedule from Kattupalli port from September 2013. The port rotation of this service is Laemchabang – Singapore – Port Klang – Kattupalli.
Container terminal L&T Shipbuilding Ltd has developed an integrated shipyard-cum-port with an initial annual capacity of 1.2 million 20foot equivalent unit at Kattupalli. It has entered into a management contract with ICTSI for the operation of the container terminal.
The terminal was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in January last year.
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