Shippers augment service networks

“This new feeder service is providing customers with greater capacity, improving operational efficiency and schedule integrity; moreover, it is helping to create a win-win situation for both shippers and the carrier to seize new business opportunities in Tyrrhenian and North Africa areas,” said a company spokesman.

On March 13, 2008, the Ital Laguna called at the Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) on her first voyage from China. The vessel is the first of four similar 5,090 teu ships built in South Korea for deployment on the Far East–Adriatic service (ADR) that calls at Trieste on weekly basis.

The service has the following port rotation: Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Alexandria Dekhila, Taranto, Trieste, Koper, Rijeka, Taranto, Tanjung Pelepas, Shanghai.