Jakarta-N. Europe shipping

Jakarta-N. Europe shipping

JAKARTA (JP): The world's largest container shipping alliance,
the Grand Alliance, launched its first direct service to
Indonesia with the arrival of OOCL Fortune at Jakarta
International Container Terminal (JICT) last Friday to start a
new direct service between the country's premier port and North
Europe.

JICT said here in a statement that the Grand Alliance consists
of five global shipping partners, namely Hapag-Lloyd, Malaysia
International Shipping Corporation, Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line,
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) and P&0-Nedlloyd.

The 241-meter long OOCL Fortune has a capacity of 2,850
TEUs(twenty-feet equivalent units) and together with seven more
vessels from the Grand Alliance partners, will serve the ports of
Southampton (United Kingdom), Rotterdam, Hamburg, La Spezia
(Italy) and many other destinations by transshipping containers
at these ports.