THE Mediterranean Shipping Co’s (MSC) Indus 2 service had its last call as Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), leaving Indian /importers with a single msc direct call at Mundra Port, reports IHS Media.
MSC added the eight-vessel, weekly Indus 2 to its network in August 2021 to capitalise on stronger-than-expected exports out of India amid an acceleration in global sourcing from Asia after demand rebounded swiftly from the pandemic shock.
The JNPT omission comes after MSC vastly expanded connections on the routing over the past year. The last known full rotation was Mundra, Nhava Sheva, King Abdullah Port, Suez, Barcelona, Valencia, Sines, Halifax, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Port Everglades, Freeport, Houston, Gioia Tauro, Suez, and back to Mundra.
Geneva-based MSC has a terminal partnership with the Adani Group at Mundra, allowing it predictable operational and commercial advantages with an option to aggregate cargo on top of its already growing transshipment loads.
‘The deployment of vessels keeps changing all the time globally,’ said Sunil Vaswani, executive director of the Container Shipping Lines’ Association (India) ‘It’s not something that is happening only now or only in India.’
