India has made changes to the cargo voyages between India and Maldives by chartering a Maldives State Shipping (MSS)
The Indian agent for sending goods to the Maldives chartered the MSS ship Galena. It has the capacity to carry 680 containers.
Previously, Tuticorin, India shipped the general goods required by the Maldives through Colombo, Sri Lanka. Yesterday, the voyage route changed. And now the goods are being transported directly from the port of Tuticorin to the Maldives.
At a ceremony in India on Friday, the Indian Minister of State for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways, Shantanu Thakur, inaugurated the direct container trips between India and Maldives
Galena will operate three voyages a month between the Maldives and India. The suspension of barge and bulk cargo voyages to the Maldives via Sri Lanka has implemented following the launch of the new voyages
Direct container shipping between the Maldives and India has launched under an agreement signed with the Maldives government during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Maldives in 2019.
MSS is working to purchase two vessels – a bulk carrier and a container vessel within the first half of this year. The bulk carrier is a cargo ship that can carry 43,000 tons (deadweight), while the container vessel can carry cargo weighing up to 11,000 tonnes (deadweight) in 680 containers.