THE GERMAN Port of Hamburg has received the recently built HS Debussy, the first ship deployed on a new, weekly joint service called ISES that is operated by the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and the Geneva's Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that plies the trade between northern Europe and the Indian subcontinent.
The containership of Hamburg's Hansa Treuhand shipping line was built at the Chengxi shipyard in Shanghai. It is 231 metres long and 32.2 metres wide, and has a slot capacity of 3,530 TEU as well as 400 connections for refrigerated containers, a statement from Hamburg Port authorities said.
Seven vessels in all, with a slot capacity ranging from 3,400 to 5,100 TEU, are currently deployed on the ISES service. In addition to charter vessels the HS Debussy and the SCI Kolkata, SCI is using two recently built ships under its own ownership, the SCI Chennai and the SCI Mumbai. These are supplemented by three MSC vessels, the Bellavia, the Octavia and the MSC Antwerp.
On leaving Hamburg, the HS Debussy is scheduled to call at the ports of Rotterdam, Felixstowe, Port Said, Jeddah, Colombo, Mumbai (Nhava Sheva) and Mundra, before setting out on the return journey to Hamburg by way of Salalah, Port Said and Barcelona. The entire round trip takes 49 days.
Consignments between the Port of Hamburg and the India-Pakistan and Middle East (Red Sea and Persian Gulf) trading areas came to 282,000 and 300,000 TEU respectively in 2008. Taken together that makes up around six per cent of all the container loads handled at the Port of Hamburg, the release added.
(Source: News and Data Online)
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