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Hapag-Lloyd adds extra services to ease India disruptions

Hapag-Lloyd has announced it is adding additional services to ease the build-up of containers in India and also to improve the challenging situation at the port of Colombo which is heavily congested.

Michele Labrut, Americas Correspondent

January 19, 2021

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Name plate at Hapag Lloyd HQ in Hamburg
Photo: Marcus Hand

Starting at end of January, Hapag-Lloyd is offering a fortnightly sailing from Chittagong to Krishnapatnam connecting Bangladesh onto the South India – Europe Express service (IEX). The company is deploying an extra-loader vessel between India and North Europe improving Hapag-Lloyd´s current service portfolio.

“With this extra loader we are able to improve our service offers for customers in India and Bangladesh but also in North Europe. The huge demand we are currently seeing is pretty unprecedented and we do our utmost to support our customers with extra capacity,” said Lars Sorensen, Hapag Lloyd managing director India.

Bookings will be available via the Quick Quotes platform, with options i.e. to add shipping guarantee, allowing containers to be moved and delivered with highest reliability.

 The rotation will be: Nhava Sheva-Mundra-Jeddah- Tangiers-Rotterdam-Hamburg- London Gateway- Antwerp- Tangiers- Jeddah- Jebal Ali- Karachi- Nhava Sheba- Mundra.

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About the Author

Michele Labrut

Americas Correspondent

Michèle Labrut is a long-time Panama resident, a journalist and correspondent, and has continuously covered the maritime sector of Central & Latin America.

Michèle first came to Panama as a press attaché to the French Embassy and then returned to the isthmus as a foreign correspondent in the 1980s.

Author of Seatrade Maritime's annual Panama Maritime Review magazine and of several books, Michèle also wrote for Time magazine, The Miami Herald, NBC News and the Economist Intelligence Unit. She has also collaborated in making several documentaries for the BBC and European and U.S. television networks.

Michèle's profession necessitates a profound knowledge of the country, but her acumen is not from necessity alone, but a genuine passion for Panama.

In 2012 she was awarded the Order of Merit (Knight grade) by the French Government for her services to international journalism and in 2021 the upgrade to Chevalier grade.

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