Thailand-based Regional Container Lines (RCL) has on Tuesday launched a new Asian container shipping service with calls at Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan. The new RPI (RCL Pakistan India) westbound service will call at Sri Lanka's Colombo port every Tuesday en route to Nhava Sheva in India's Mumbai port, and Pakistan's Karachi port on a fixed day service. The eastbound service will call Colombo every Friday en route to Malaysia's Port Klang and Singapore on a fixed day service. Both Colombo calls will be at the state-owned Jaya Container Terminal. “With these three weekly services calling Colombo, RCL will be accepting import and export cargos from and to all ports of Australia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Philippines Indonesia, Hong Kong Singapore, Malaysia, India and Pakistan,” the company said. RCL will also be offering slots for containers to and from Karachi, Nhava Sheva, Port Klang and Singapore for local and transshipment cargoes on these sailings via Colombo.

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