Orient Express launches Kolkata-Yangon feeder service

Singapore: Singapore-based Orient Express Lines belonging to Transworld Group has launched a Yangon (Myanmar) -Kolkata-Yangon direct container feeder service.
The first vessel, "Mare Blaticum", with 325 containers on board from Yangon, arrived at the Netaji Subhas Dock under the Kolkata Dock System on Monday, according to a press release issued by the Kolkata Port Trust. The vessel will leave the Kolkata Dock System for Yangon on Tuesday night with 150 boxes on board. Right now, the service is fortnightly ?" two voyages a month but from April, it will become weekly, with the deployment of a second vessel on the route. [03/03/09]