News / Major box lines enhance their coverage of India trades as demand grows

Major container lines are boosting their coverage of the India trades to tap into anticipated stronger export/import demand growth amid the trade diversification in Asia.

Leading the push, CMA CGM has announced a flurry of service enhancements for the emerging market this week.

The French liner has rolled out a complementary loop to its BIGEX, or India-Gulf Express, service launched last April as the fastest direct connection from Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port to the Gulf market. It later discontinued Chittagong calls because of ...