G2 Ocean will over the next six to 12 months establish more sailings and services, including expanded links from India to Southeast Asia and Japan and possibly a service from the US to Brazil and South America, Prashant Samel, G2 Ocean’s Singapore-based senior chartering manager, told JOC.com.
Volumes to and from Africa have more than doubled and the number of port calls has almost tripled, Simon Baker, G2 Ocean chartering director for Africa, India, and the Middle East, told JOC.com. Breakbulk and dry cargo commodities carried on its Africa services include project cargo, forest products, non-ferrous metals, steels and bulk cargoes, operating from Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, and Mozambique.
Samel said volumes on the new India-US East Coast/Gulf semi-liner service reached 500,000 freight tonness in 11 sailings since February. The India-US service, currently one ship per month, calls Oman, the UAE, and west coast ports of India before a Suez transit direct to North America, where the ports covered are New Orleans, Baltimore, Houston, Galveston, and Altami. Vessels are carrying a mix of cargo including project freight, wind turbine components, steel pipes, and finished aluminum products.
India and the Middle East are more finished product producers,” Samel said. “It’s a lot of volume compared with what the trade has been used to. The box-shaped holds of the multipurpose ships give us a lot of flexibility in the types of parcel-like cargoes we carry.”
G2 Ocean, a joint venture between Gearbulk and Grieg Star, is currently operating a fleet of approximately 125 ships. In addition to its many semi-liner services, the carrier calls to global destinations on a tramp basis.
