The Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI) has announced that the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has added the new shipping service East Africa Express to King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam.
This new development looks to connect the Kingdom to East African ports.
The new shipping service connects King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam with the ports of Mundra in India, Qasim in Pakistan, Abu Dhabi and Jebel Ali in the Emirates, and ports in East Africa, via regular weekly trips, with a capacity of up to 11,000 standard containers.
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King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam possesses several pioneering operational and logistical characteristics and capabilities, with 43 berths fully serviced and equipped, and a capacity of up to 105 million tonnes of goods and containers.
In March, the port achieved a new record for container volume, handling 289,787 TEU.
Last month, MAWANI launched the Ports Community System (PCS) under the umbrella of the unified logistics window ‘Logistics’.
More recently, MAWANI announced the addition of VASI Shipping Pte Ltd’s IMS shipping service to King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam.
