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Safeen Feeders adds containership for UAE coastal service

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AD Ports Group’s Safeen Feeders has added a new containership to be deployed on its UAE – Coastal Feeder service.

The company has acquired the, 2012-built, 966 teu, Safeen Pearl, formerly Vega Virgo, on the service which connects Khalifa Port, and the coastal ports of Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Fujairah.

Captain Maktoum Al Houqani, Chief Corporate Authority Officer and Acting Head of Maritime Cluster - AD Ports Group, Managing Director – Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy said “As part of the UAE-Coastal Feeder Service, SAFEEN Pearl will greatly improve our ability to provide customers with a flexible, agile, sustainable, and cost-effective solution that meets their demand of a coastal service in the UAE from our hub at Khalifa Port.

“It will also develop our ability to target customers in the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Gulf region and connect them with some of the world’s leading shipping liners.”

Safeen Feeders was launched last year and operates its services through a joint commercial agreement with Bengal Tiger Line