Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will revise the northbound Sri Lankan port call on its Far East–South Africa Ingwe service, replacing Colombo with Hambantota as the designated transshipment hub, according to industry reports.

Concurrently, MSC will expand the service’s vessel deployment by adding one additional vessel, bringing the total fleet allocation to 12 container ships—ranging in capacity from 5,500 to 12,000 TEU.

Following this network optimization, the updated Ingwe service rotation will serve the following ports in sequence: Qingdao → Shanghai → Ningbo →  Shenzhen (Shekou) → Singapore → Port Louis → Ngqura → Durban → Port Louis → Hambantota → Hong Kong → Tianjin—before returning to Qingdao.

These adjustments are intended to enhance MSC’s operational resilience and schedule reliability on the Asia–South Africa trade corridor, while reinforcing Hambantota’s strategic function as a regional transshipment node within MSC’s intra-Asia and Africa connectivity framework.

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