Thursday 6 October 2022 – 21:11
DUBAI, 6th October, 2020 (WAM) – DB World has announced the addition of new trade routes extending over 23,000 nautical miles around the world during the first nine months of 2022, which equates to an entire trip around the Earth .
The new trade routes implemented so far include the connection between India, the Middle East and Africa, as well as several new roads linking small ports with the port of Rotterdam in Europe, and other new connecting roads linking Latin America, Europe. and Asia.
New trade routes, linking the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, open up new business opportunities for commodity owners, improve access to goods and services for disadvantaged people and communities, and provide alternative routes to congested global routes and ports around the world, the scientist.
Timan Meester, CEO of Ports and Terminals Operations at DB World, said: “We believe in the importance of facilitating the flow of trade around the world and will be able to provide new business opportunities that connect freight owners with their customers, whatever their products and wherever they are, benefiting from our world-leading capabilities in road, rail, sea and port modes.
He added: “New trade routes allow Central American fruit suppliers to reach Asia, the UK and Western Europe and offer African citrus growers easy access to new markets in the Middle East and South Asia. our main goal is to find better, more sustainable and efficient ways to transport goods to our customers, as we always try to employ advanced technologies and innovations in order to create new models for the transport of goods to markets that have no trade routes, or to add alternatives to supply chains that are not at the required level ”.
This also includes a new route connecting Ecuador’s fruit and cocoa producers to Asia for the first time, where French container transport and transport company CMA CGM launched a new freight service in August from DB World. – Posorga in the port of Guayaquil, to connect the country to Asia. . The new direct link route is used to rotate 11 vessels, improving transit times to Asia.
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