The carrier GREEN NAGOYA recently departed from Dagang Terminal at Qingdao Port of Shandong Port Group (SPG). This marks the official launch of the first direct Southeast Africa shipping service at SPG, a service that sets sail every week. Qingdao Port has now emerged as the only hub port in northern China for COSCO Special Shipping's general cargo liner operations.

Designed to link up Asia with eastern Africa and southern Africa, the shipping route, which starts at Qingdao Port and Zhangjiagang, and stops at such major African ports as Dar-es-Salaam, Mombasa and Durban, can transport speedily and directly industrial products from Qingdao or other places of China to Africa. Compared with earlier shipping routes to Southeast Africa, thanks to the “hub port” and “loading at a single port” modes, the service reduces the fastest direct shipping time from China to the main ports of Southeast Africa to a mere 20 days, at least 10 days earlier than previous routes and enhancing efficiency by over 30 percent.

“After put into operation, the service is scheduled as a four-times-monthly service and will deliver nearly 1.5 million cubic meters of goods to Southeast Africa per year, emerging as a "sea expressway" for general cargo transportation between China and Southeast African regions,” said Gu Weidong, deputy general manager of COSCO Special Shipping.  (Zhou Xiaofeng)

The carrier GREEN NAGOYA is being loaded with goods in Dagang Terminal, Qingdao Port.