Shipping group Maersk Line gets back to its routes

摘要

SHIPPING giant Maersk Line is opening up further direct export routes from Egypt, adding destinations like Constanza, llyichevsk, Thessaloniki, Piraeus, Haydarpasa, Ambarli, Barcelona, FosSur Mer, Zeebrugge and Dunkirk to its already extensive list. Many of the company's exist ing ports around Europe will benefit from a decrease in transit times, according to David Kennedy Browne, national sales manager, Maersk Egypt. "Felixstowe, for example, will now be only a seven-day journey from Port Said," hetells Trade Middle East. "We therefore anticipate an increase in exports of grapes to the UK from April 2007."