News / Carriers missing calls in India amid transhipment delays at Colombo

Credit: DP World (India)

With heightened service reliability challenges, MSC is increasingly concentrating Indian calls in Mundra Port, instead of multiple port calls that had become an industry strategy to maximise cargo volumes.

That consolidation has seen many sailings on MSC’s premier routings under its US East Coast and Europe networks skipping Nhava Sheva/Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in recent weeks.

In Mundra, MSC has an ’own-terminal advantage,’ enabling quicker vessel turnarounds bundled with predictable tariff benefits – a critical factor in the current dysfunctional scenario.

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