Alan Peat
THE INDIAN Ocean Service (IOS) operated by Maersk Sealand, between the Middle East and SA via the Indian Ocean Islands, has just acquired an upgrade - served by 1 000 TEU container ships since March 31.
In tandem with the Maersk/ Safmarine SAMBA (SA-Middle East-Brazil-Argentine) service, this will provide shippers with
a fixed-day weekly product on the Middle East-SA-Indian Ocean Islands circuit. It also sees Maersk a calls at Madagascar.
The new port rotation for the IOS is: Salalah / Port Reunion / Port Louis / Toamasina / Durban / Toamasina/Port Reunion / Port Louis / Salalah.
Samba, meantime, also calls at the first five ports on this rotation.
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