P&O NEDLLOYD AND NYK ADD CHINESE CALLS TO ASIA/MIDEAST SERVICE

P&O NEDLLOYD AND NYK ADD CHINESE CALLS TO ASIA/MIDEAST SERVICE    Anglo-Dutch carrier P&O Nedlloyd and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line have added a ship and new calls to the Chinese ports of Ningbo, Shanghai and Yantian to their joint weekly “Gulf Karachi Express” service.
   Calls at the ports of Bahrain, Kuwait and Colombo have been dropped from the service.
   The first scheduled sailing from Ningbo was made by the vessel P&O Nedlloyd Bandar Abbas on Aug. 26.
   The vessel P&O Nedlloyd Dammam has been added to the service, which will now deploy five vessels of between 1,600 and 2,078 TEUs.
   The revised service rotation is Ningbo, Shanghai, Yantian, Singapore, Port Kelang, Jebel Ali, Dammam, Bandar Abbas, Singapore, Ningbo, Shanghai and Yantian.