CICT attracts first new service to Colombo from Ocean Alliance
View(s):Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) recently welcomed the maiden call of CMA CGM Nabucco, the first vessel under the Ocean Alliance to call on the Port of Colombo.
The vessel operated by CMA CGM was the first in a new weekly service attracted to Colombo by CICT this year, and will operate under the USEC 3 Columbus Suez service of the Ocean Alliance, the company said in a media release.
“The introduction of this new service demonstrates how CICT continues to play the anchor role of attracting new volumes through the Port of Colombo,” CICT CEO Ray Ren said. “This is in line with our concept and focus of marketing the Port internationally as one unit for the benefit of all terminals, thereby enhancing the position of the Port of Colombo as a major common-user transhipment hub.”
With more than 40 maritime services and 323 ships, Ocean Alliance is the largest operational agreement ever made between shipping companies.
CICT, the only deep water terminal in South Asia equipped with facilities to handle the largest vessels afloat, reported a throughput of 2 million TEUs for the 12 months ending December 31, 2016, achieving impressive YoY growth of 28 per cent in volume. Over the past two years, CICT has brought some of the largest vessels plying the Asia-Europe routes to Colombo.