Evergreen, WHL, and SSF will each operate one vessel.

The EAF service will call at Colombo > Mombasa > Dar es Salaam > Colombo, starting on May 11th.

Safmarine will reintroduce its ME3 service between the Mediterranean and West Central Asia in April.

According to Safmarine Liner director Jan Scheck, the reintroduction of the service, which was suspended last year, is aligned with Safmarine's plans to strengthen its presence in the dynamic Mediterranean/Black Sea region, and also supports Safmarine's renewed focus on its core markets of the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and Africa.

Scheck pointed out that the focus of the revised ME3 service is to provide an improved product, rather than simply increase capacity; hence the decision to add a direct call at Ambarli and to deploy smaller vessels on the revised service.

The reintroduction of the ME 3 service also complements the product enhancements made to the ME1 service, whereby the ports of Gioia Tauro and Port Said were removed from ME 1 (since these will now be covered on ME3) and replaced with eastbound calls at Algeciras and Aqaba.

The ME 1 service will also offer an exclusive, direct North Europe to Aqaba connection, which will be the fastest in the market.

Five vessels, with an average FFE of 1,400, will be deployed on the ME3 service, which will call at  Pipavav (India) > Jawaharlal Nehru (India) > Jebel Ali (UAE) > Salalah (Oman) > Port Said (Egypt) > Ambarli (Turkey) > Gioia Tauro (Italy) > Port Said (Egypt) > Jebel Ali.