Maersk is redesigning its ocean network in West & Central Asia, connecting countries including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia to the world. The changes in the network are primarily aimed at improving speed to market, providing higher predictability and offering more flexibility to customers’ supply chains. Further, redesigning the network will also bring more resilience to the customers’ supply chains, protecting them better from operational challenges that arise out of contingencies.
Mads Skov-Hansen, Head of Liner Operations Cluster, Maersk West & Central Asia, commented, “Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains have experienced a perfect storm. The unprecedented scale of operational challenges restricting supply during the pandemic and the strong demand surge in parallel led to significant bottlenecks, capacity issues and unforeseen delays across supply chains. This prompted us to redesign our ocean network to overcome these challenges and make our customers’ supply chains more resilient.”
As a part of redesigning the network, the ME6 service and transhipment on AE1 at Colombo will be discontinued. However, customers will continue to have the option to connect their cargo on a full array of services calling West & Central Asia. The network changes will be implemented in a phased manner and will not affect the total deployed capacity in the global network.
Bhavan Vempati, Regional Head of Ocean Management, Maersk West & Central Asia, added, “Our customers deserve a predictable service that will allow them to plan their supply chains better. With our redesigned ocean network, we are not only providing our customers with predictability and resilience but also greater speed to market, allowing them to optimise their inventories and operations to meet the surge in demand with a competitive edge.”
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