News / Carriers add flurry of long-haul services into 'steady' Indian market

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The increasingly steady Indian container market is seeing a flurry of new long-haul services, as ocean carriers deftly redeploy tonnage to improve capacity utilisation and profitability.

MSC’s Asia-US west coast connection, branded Sentosa, will now include calls at Nhava Sheva (JNPT) and Mundra in India, and is the latest example of this evolving industry trend.

It follows the Cosco/OOCL consortium beginning a West India-US east coast routing, after closing a China-Vietnam-US east coast loop and Taiwanese carrier Wan Hai Lines announcing an ...