To enhance customer service efficiency and quality, Wanhai Shipping Company for India inland huge domestic demand, Wanhai Shipping Company (Wan Hai Lines) Asia-America 7 (AA7) route opened a new route to Sri Lanka Colombo, which will be for cargo owners in India south and the United States east coast between the transport of goods to provide additional transshipment options.
The latest AA7 route in is in the order of Shanghai, Ningbo, Taipei, Shekou, Gemei, Singapore, Colombo, New York, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah and finally back to Shanghai. A weekly cycle of 12 vessels with capacities from 8500 TEU to 13100 TEU.
Wanhai related person in charge said that this service will be Wanhai shipping customers from India and Sri Lanka to the United States east coast of the fast export channel, to strengthen the Indian subcontinent and the United States between the coverage, at the same time this week announced Wanhai India Delhi branch grand opening.
According to the two-year foreign trade policy announced by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India, India's export trade volume will reach 19 trillion billion US dollars in 2030, and India's position in global manufacturing and international trade is rising. Benefiting from government policy incentives and shifting trends in global supply chains, continued economic stimulus policies have helped to boost domestic demand. Therefore, Wan Hai is optimistic about India's future import and export situation.
Currently, Wanhai in India has five own offices, namely Mumbai, Chennai, Mundra and Vizag, and the fifth office is Delhi.
According to industry insiders, the addition of Wanhai additional capacity may bring some pressure to Mediterranean Shipping Company, CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd's ongoing India-US trade general interest rate hike (GRI) attempt.
However, Daniel Krassenstein, global supply chain director at US industrial packaging manufacturer Procon Pacific, is cautious about the new transshipment window for Indian goods. Cargo from eastern India (Chennai/Kolkata) often encountered transshipment delays in Colombo, forcing these cargoes to stay on the docks for a week before connecting to the mainline routes.
Container Shipping Association (India) executive director Sunil Vaswani (Sunil Vaswani) said that with India and the United States trade volume steadily increasing, carriers believe that capacity expansion has greater value.
Shipping companies have also been launching new services, adding ports of call to existing ports, introducing larger ships, and relocating more empty containers to India. "
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