News / Box lines skip ports on Indian service in bid to recover schedules

© André Muller

Indian shippers and freight forwarders, already dealing with vessel space constraints, are going to see a long streak of missed key port calls on the Indian Ocean Service (IOS), a premier connection between West India and North Europe.

The weekly service, operated by Hapag-Lloyd in a consortium deal with Ocean Network Express (ONE), will intermittently void calls at Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Mundra, Rotterdam, London Gateway and Antwerp from July through September.

In addition, Hazira, the service’s third Indian port of call, will be ...