DP World has launched a new weekly shipping line linking its facility on India’s Malabar coast to the Middle East, Indian Transport & Logistics News reports, citing a statement from DP World. Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will operate the new route with four vessels, each with a capacity of 2.4k TEU.

The line’s maiden ship MV MSC Krittika arrived at DP World’s International Container Trans-shipment Terminal (ICTT) in Kochi last week, according to the statement.

Details: “The new service will provide direct and seamless connectivity between Cochin, Mundra, Karachi, Jebel Ali, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait (with Shuwaikh Port), Qatar (with Hamad Port) and Sri Lanka (Colombo). This will create a faster, stable, and reliable service for the traders across the India-Middle East corridor and leverage the strong partnerships between the two regions for boosting economic growth,” the Indian news site quotes the press release as saying.

This latest line will be the third weekly service connecting DP World Cochin to the Middle East, the news outlet reported. The terminal can handle post panamax ships — vessels that exceed a capacity of 5k TEU — and has processed more than 6 mn TEU of shipping since it began operations in 2011, the DP World statement added.

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