Another direct shipping service to connect Ctg with Rotterdam, Liverpool
Thanks to the success of the first direct container shipping service between Chattogram and Italy commenced in February this year, several Europe-based logistics providers now also want to launch such services for faster transportation of Bangladesh's export cargoes.
The new initiative has been taken by United Kingdom-based freight forwarding firm Allseas Global Logistics, UK, which has progressed to operate three vessels to connect Chattogram port directly with Rotterdam in Netherlands and Liverpool in the UK.
The firm has already chartered three vessels having over 1,500 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) capacity, a bit bigger ones compared to the vessels either deployed already or proposed for.
Earlier in February, an Italian shipping company lunched direct service between Chattogram and Italian port of Ravenna with two smaller vessels MV Songa Chhetah and Cape Flores, both having capacity to carry 1,100 TEUs.
Phoenix Shipping Limited, local agent of the Allseas Global Logistics, submitted its application to the CPA chairman seeking permission of the three vessels to operate on direct Chattogram-North Europe Service (Rotterdam/Liverpool).
Captain Syed Sohel Hasnat, chief executive officer (CEO) of Phoenix Shipping, hoped that under the service the first vessel MV AMO, which is now in China would arrive at Chattogram port on May 15 with some empty containers.
On its way back the vessel would carry over 700 TEUs export load containers to Rotterdam, he informed.
He said they would try to operate each voyage in every 10 days from Chattogram and thus under the service there would be three voyages in a month.
Hasnat said the UK based freight forwarder, which is a leading forwarder globally, took the initiative since it has been facing long delay in transporting Bangladesh's export cargo to EU destinations by connecting mother vessels through transhipment ports.
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