Monday
5, August 2002
Vol 1 - Issue 04
MSC shifts services from Omani port of Salalah to Muscat
Muscat:
Swiss-based
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) shifted its weekly
India-Pakistan-Europe service from the Omani port of Salalah to Muscat.
The line has moved to Muscat at trial basis because of the shortage of
feeders in Salalah port. MSC has been operating in Dubai since 1995. The
Swiss carrier decided to start a weekly India-Pakistan-Europe feeder
service from the Omani port of Salalah in late 2000. MSC of Geneva,
Switzerland, is a privately-owned shipping line, founded in 1970. It
operates a container fleet of over 420,000 TEU (twenty feet equivalent
unit) containers which include 20 foot and 40 foot drybox units, reefers,
open tops, flat racks, collapsible and high cube containers.
posted 5th August 2002
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Dutch firm to manage Sohar port
Muscat:
Oman
has awarded Netherland's Rotterdam Port Authority a 25-year management
contract for its northern Sohar port as part of the Gulf state's
privatisation drive. Under the concession agreement, a private firm called
Sohar Industrial Port would be set up to develop, manage and promote the
port. Oman's government and the Dutch side would each own 50 per cent of
the firm. Oman has been building the port as part of its plans to promote
Sohar as a regional industrial centre. The port is situated in the Gulf of
Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic expanse of water the country
shares with Iran. Port officials said the government had expanded plans
for the port to support exports from proposed aluminium and fertiliser
projects worth about $3 billion. The expansion put back the completion
date to August 2003 from April 2002.
posted 5th August 2002
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