SCI launched direct service to Red Sea ports

The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has announced the commencement of its new direct container service, in partnership with Hull & Hutch, linking the West Coast India and Red Sea ports. To commence, tentatively from the first week of February, it will initially deploy two vessels of about 1,600 TEUs each, with SCI and its partner providing a vessel each.

According to Exim News Service, the service will commence from Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNP) and the port rotation will be: Mundra, Djibouti, Aden-Hodeidah, Jeddah, Port Sudan, Aqaba, Eilat and back to JNP. The round voyage duration will be 24 days.

SCI will induct m.v. Marivia (renamed as SCI Trust), which is at present deployed in Indfex-II service into the new service at Chennai on January 26. The new service will commence its maiden voyage from Chennai, calling Colombo, JNP and Mundra before commencing its outbound leg.

Source: Transport Weekly