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Milaha Launches First Ever Container Feeder
Service between Qatar and Iraq
May 3, 2018
Qatar Navigation Company (Milaha) has
announced the launch of a direct container feeder service
between Qatar and Iraq. The new service, which will be an
expansion of the existing Qatar-Kuwait service that the company
launched last year, will follow a Hamad Port-Umm Qasr (Iraq) -
Shuwaikh (Kuwait)-Hamad Port rotation, and will be initially
served by one vessel with a 1,015 TEU capacity and 110 reefer
containers. The service will have a transit time of 2 days,
making it particularly ideal for dry and refrigerated food
stuff, consumer electronics, and construction materials, among
other cargo. The first vessel will depart from Hamad Port on 7
May 2018 and reach at Umm Qasr Port on 9 May 2018.
Commenting on the launch of the new service,
Milaha’s President and CEO Mr. Abdurrahman Essa Al-Mannai said:
“There has been excellent demand on the Qatar-Kuwait service
that we launched last year, and we have been looking at ways to
further expand that service to give our Iraqi clients and
partners more convenience through greater port coverage and
reduced transit times. This new service will contribute to the
reconstruction efforts in Iraq, and will also help boost the
growing trade and economic relations between Qatar and Iraq.”
Milaha continues to enhance its international
presence and diverse portfolio of maritime and logistics
services through the launch of several new shipping routes and
deployment of new supply chain solutions across a number of
countries. Milaha currently calls two ports in Oman (Sohar and
Salalah), three ports in India (Nhava Sheva, Mundra, and
Kandla), one port in Kuwait (Shuwaikh), one port in Pakistan
(Karachi), one port in Sri Lanka (Colombo), and one port in
Bangladesh (Chittagong), offering enhanced connectivity and
transit times to Qatar and the region.
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