GERMANY's Hapag-Lloyd, the world's fifth largest carrier, has announced it will cancel its call at India's container port of Nhava Sheva due to congestion, and will instead go 500 kilometres north to Mundra, 500 kilometres from mid-October.

    The new rotation of its Asia-Black Sea Express Service will be Mundra, Colombo, Port Kelang, Shenzhen-Da Chan Bay, Ningbo, Shanghai and Busan. The last ABS vessel to arrive at Nhava Sheva is scheduled on October 19, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce.

    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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