AD Ports launched a new weekly shipping service from Khalifa Port to Qatar’s Hamad Port and Kuwait’s Shuwaikh and Shuaiba ports, according to a company statement. The group will provide a digital appointment booking system for the new shipping service through the Advanced Trade and Logistics Platform (ATLP), which is developed and run by its digital arm, Maqta Gateway.

A Ramadan offer: AD ports will offer the service for cargo transported by land between the ports via container vessels without charge throughout the month.

This is the second shipping service launched from the UAE port in the span of a week, after AD Ports launched a Ro-Ro shipping service from Khalifa Port to Shuwaikh Port on Saturday. The new services come as part of plans to boost trade through Khalifa Port.

IN OTHER SHIPPING NEWS-

Hapag-Lloyd launched a new service connecting the Moroccan port of Tanger Med with West Africa, according to a company statement. The shipping firm launched a new Container WA1 Service, operating every two weeks, that will depart Tanger Med Morocco and make its way to Nouakchott, Mauritania, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Conakry, Guinea, Monrovia, and Liberia before returning to Tanger Med. The first sailing in the service is scheduled for 15 May.

The container shipping giant also revised its rotation and timing for its West Africa Express shipping service, which departs from Tanger Med, Morocco and makes its way to Dakar, Senegal, Tema, Ghana, Abidjan, and Ivory Coast on a weekly basis. The new rotation is scheduled for 7 May.

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