A Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. operated container service between the Far East and Black Sea, will drop calls at Nhava Sheva port, India’s largest container port as of late October, according to a press release issued by Hapag-Lloyd, which takes slots on the service.

Starting from the Oct. 24 sailing, Zim’s EMX service will drop calls at the Nhava Sheva port complex and replace them with calls at Mundra, 500 kilometres to the north, India’s largest privately owned port. The new rotation of its Asia-Black Sea Express Service will be Mundra, Colombo, Port Kelang, Shenzhen-DaChanBay, Ningbo, Shanghai and Busan.

The service operates with 10 Zim container ships with an average capacity of TEU 4,170. Many carriers have made similar moves by calling at Mundra, India's largest privately owned port, in the past few months to avoid the increasing congestion and operational problems at the Mumbai port complexes.

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