News / Indian trade disrupted as port congestion forces liner services to skip calls

Container lines are wrestling with growing service reliability challenges on connections out of India – the longer journey around southern Africa and congestion problems at hub ports en-route, particularly Jebel Ali, have taken a toll on their operations.

CMA CGM and MSC have announced port call changes on several Indian services to help schedule recovery, sparking serious concerns for shippers and forwarders.

For example, the French carrier yesterday told Indian customers its North Europe-Mediterranean-Oceania (NEMO) service, which recently added a call at ...