Uniglory to launch a new Far East - Red Sea service

In a joint service with Cosco, Uniglory Marine Corporation is to launch a new weekly Far East - Red Sea (FRS) service in mid April. The first sailing is scheduled to be made by Uni-Assure (voyage: 0001-020W) departing Singapore on 16 April.

Uniglory is placing three of its 1164TEU A-type vessels in the FRS service while Cosco will contribute one vessel of a similar size. The port rotation will be:

Port Klang - Singapore - Colombo - Aden - Jeddah - Aqaba - Port Klang.

In Port Klang and Singapore, the FRS service will link with other services operated by Uniglory and Evergreen to provide connections to many other ports throughout Asia and around the world.

According to David Young, President of Uniglory Marine Corp, this new service will further strengthen his company's coverage of the Middle East market:

"With the addition of direct calls to Bandar Abbas in Iran in January, we added one important Middle East destination to our network. Now, by adding Aden in the Yemen Republic plus Aqaba in Jordan, there are two more new countries in the Uniglory network. Jeddah too increases the options available to shippers of cargo to Saudi Arabia; we have of course served the Saudi Gulf port of Dammam for many years.

"Aden is a particularly interesting port as the PSA Corp is promoting it as a major hub for the Red Sea, Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean. Over the next few weeks, we will be evaluating the various feeder options available via Aden to see whether we can expand our port coverage even further."