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Three team up for Chennai-Taiwan box service
30 April 2011: Three global shipping lines – Wan Hai Lines, Evergreen Line and Interasia Lines – will jointly launch a container shipping service connecting Taiwan with Chennai.
The weekly service, called TMT (Taiwan-Madras-Taiwan), will consist of four 1,300 TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit) vessels with two operated by the Taiwan-based Wan Hai and one by Evergreen and Interasia each. The maiden voyage by the container vessel, Karin Schulte, operated by Interasia, started on 29 April 2011, from Taichung.
The service will run on a 28-day basis with rotation calling at Taichung, Keelung, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (mid-stream), Nansha, Shekou, Port Klang and Chennai. In the return direction from Chennai, the service will call at Penang, Port Klang, Singapore, Yantian, Hong Kong and Taichung.
Source: Hindu Business Line