Mediterranean Shipping Company’s “Golden Gate Service” made its inaugural call Thursday at the Port of Charleston, when the first vessel in the service to call Charleston, the MSC Rita, arrived overnight.
The MSC Rita was working at the Port of Charleston’s Wando Welch Terminal before sailing to Freeport in the Bahamas on its way to the Suez Canal, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
The 1,065-foot-long vessel has a maximum draft of 47.5 feet.
The port rotation of the Golden Gate Service includes Shanghai, Ningbo, Chiwan and Yantian, China; Singapore; Salalah, Oman; Suez Canal transit; New York; Baltimore; Norfolk; Charleston; Freeport, Bahamas; Suez Canal transit; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Singapore; Chiwan; Hong Kong.
The service provides a 21-day transit time outbound from Charleston to Jeddah.
The arrival of the new service brings the number of its weekly calls at Charleston to six, which serve markets in the western Mediterranean, South American, Caribbean, African and European trades.
The Journal of Commerce Online
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