Edited excerpts of the Interview - 

Q. What is your sense of current Shipping market in general for entire maritime industry and Bahri Line in particular? 

This present shipping market we can see lot of opportunities to expand, Bahri Line is taking these opportunities to grow in to different tradelines and offer our customer an unique services to design the supply chain in a better way.  

Q. Bahri Line recently inked a pact with International Maritime Industries at 

Saudi Maritime Congress 2022? Can you throw some light on how it will be helpful for your company as a whole? 

To align the Saudi Arabia vision 2030 and Saudi Arabia to be the logistics hub of the region Bahri is taking lot of initiatives to achieve the goal, part of the strategic approach we had our strong presents in Saudi Maritime Congress 2022, being a national flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, we are putting extra efforts to achieve our goals.  

Q. Digitization is being adopted in full force by the Maritime Industry in general and Shipping Lines in particular? Can you enlighten our readers with Digitization drive at Bahri Line? 

Digitization and automation are important need of our industry, Bahri Line is heavily investing on our digitalization plan, our approach is to be maximum automation with transparency and visibility on complete activity.

Q. What is your take on Indian Market given the fact that it is one of the fastest growing Major Economies of the World fuelling Global Growth? 

As Bahri Line is the one of the largest project cargo vessel operator in the world connecting Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Bahri Line is offering direct service to India and from India to all this continents with regular and reliable service, looking at the growth of India economies and need of connecting the world Bahri Line plays very strategical role to make sure our service connect India ports to major ports in the world.  

Q. What are the unique offerings available to 

an Indian customer from the stable of 

Bahri Line? 

Bahri Line is the major project cargo operator in the world, the project cargo world keeping Bahri Line as carrier of choice due to Bahri Line service reliability, transparency and commitment to the trade and customers.  

Q. How does Bahri Line connect India to the rest of the world? What are the ports of call in India? 

All our major services are connecting India, our North America service is starting from Middle East directly to India then, India to Jakarta (Indonesia) SPCT(Vietnam), Shanghai (China), Taicang (China), Lazaro Cardenas (Mexico), Pensacola, Houston, Wilmington, Baltimore (USA), Genoa (Italy) Alexandria (Egypt) all major Middle East Ports. Our Europe service will start from Shanghai (China), Taicang (China) directly in to Ennore (India) after Ennore vessel will call Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Montoir (France), Bremerhaven (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium) back to Jeddah then China.

Q. What are your future expansion plans in general and India in particular? 

Bahri Line major focus is to expand the network globally and offer multiple service network in to the trade, Bahri Line going to offer connecting multiple continents to Indian ports with more Rocon vessels.

Q. What is your message to the Indian Trade? 

The world is amazed by looking at the growth of Indian economy, shipping industry is playing major role in this and believe there is more opportunities and growths are coming to Indian market.