German based shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has announced that the company will commence a new container service linking Europe and the Middle East.

To be known as “EPIC”,the restructured service will be provided jointly by Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Süd, and will see transit times from Antwerp to Karachi of just seventeen days.

Hapag-Lloyd will contribute four 4,200 Twenty foot equivalent unit, container vessels to the six vessel service, with each ship offering four-hundred reefer plugs.

The service will depart and return to the port of Hamburg with visits to the ports of Tilbury, Antwerp, Gioia Tauro, Jebel Ali, Karachi, Mundra and Nhava Sheva making up the services route.

Hapag-Lloyd states that in addition to the EPIC service itself, a shuttle service conecting Gioia Tauro to Alexandria in Egypt will allow for greater shipping options within the Middle East, the transit time between the Egyptian port and Gioia Tauro being only two and a half days.

Source: Hapag-Lloyd

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