Ports added to Asia-West Africa shipping service

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Line (MOL) is to add new ports of call at the Asian end of its Asia-West Africa (WA1) service.

In this service, MOL will operate five vessels out of the total of eleven 2 800-TEU ships, with partners Evergreen Line and Cosco providing the others.

From February 1, the rotation will see new Malaysia and Sri Lanka calls added.

According to Ship Management International, the port rotation will be: Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Guangzhou-Nansha, Singapore, Port Kelang, Colombo, Lagos-Apapa, Lagos-Tincan, Tema, Cotonou, Abidjan, Singapore, and Shanghai.

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