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Swire Shipping and Rickmers-Linie partner up for Middle-East-Australasia trades

Swire Shipping and Rickmers-Linie partner up for Middle-East-Australasia trades
Swire Shipping and Rickmers-Linie have announced a strategic carrier partnership with a monthly lifting capacity of 120 tonnes.

The service will allow Swire Shipping to connect its breakbulk and project cargoes in India and the Middle East, through Rickmers-Linie’s Middle East and India Service, to its network in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, via Singapore.

The first voyage is scheduled to depart Mumbai on 9 June 2015, loading at Jebel Ali, Mumbai, Chennai, Dammam, and Kolkata, before carrying cargoes via Singapore to Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, New Caledonia, Fiji, Australian East Coast, Darwin, East Timor and New Zealand.

“This collaboration with Rickmers-Linie allows Swire Shipping to provide its customers with another shipping solution for their multipurpose cargo needs,” said Swire Shipping commercial manager William Arblaster. “It enhances our network coverage by providing a regular breakbulk service out of India and the Middle East into the South Pacific region.”

Gerhard Janssen, director global sales and marketing for Rickmers-Linie added, “Since our vessels from Europe to the Middle East and India continue to Singapore, this cooperation offers an increased range of destinations and loading ports on offer for customers of both Swire Shipping and Rickmers-Linie. We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.”