BUSAN: Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), TS Lines (TSL) and Gold Star Line (GSL) have organised a joint service linking the Far East to the Mumbai market (CIX/CMX/CNX), connecting Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian and Singapore to Nhava Sheva, returning to Busan via Port Kelang and Singapore.
The new service will turn in five weeks with five ships of between 3,000 and 4,600 TEU, of which three will be provided by HMM (Hyundai Commodore, Santa Cruz and Northern Promotion), one by TSL (Mark Twain) and one by GSL, which has yet to be named.
The new service will replace for HMM, its standalone 'China India Express' service (CIX), run until recently with 2,170 TEU-ships. The CIX was first launched in 2006 and called at Busan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Singapore, Nhava Sheva, Pipavav, Singapore and Busan.
GSL currently offers a China-Mumbai service through slots on the ‘Central China-India' service run by OOCL, RCL, X-Press Feeders and Hamburg Sud (CCI), that it brands as the CNX.
