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05 JAN 2009
 New Hanjin IMU Service at Khorfakkan.
'Hanjin Rio De Janeiro' first ship on new service to call at KCT.
Gulftainer, the region's leading port management and logistics firm, has announced that its Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) received the first of Hanjin's ships on its new 'IMU' (India/ Middle East/ USA) service, which is the result of Hanjin (and partners UASC) revamping their services covering South Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the US East Coast.
The 'Hanjin Rio De Janeiro' called at Gulftainer's Khorfakkan Container Terminal on Sunday 4 January 2009 under the command of Captain J.S. Lee. The 4,275 teu, 52,000 DWT container ship, built in South Korea in early 2008, is one of Hanjin's contribution of four ships to the service.
Gulftainer Group Director and General Manager Peter Richards commented, "Hanjin, Senator (and their partners UASC) are old, well-established customers of Gulftainer and Sharjah, and as always we are looking forward to working with them as they enhance their services in the region. Khorfakkan Container Terminal is already well-established as one of the fastest container terminals in the world, and such productivity - and the resultant cost savings - will be more important than ever in the challenging year ahead of us."
"We will certainly do all we can to ensure that this - and all our other customers' services - are operated as quickly and efficiently as possible to save them time and money," Richards added.
Strategically located on Sharjah's Indian Ocean coast, outside the sensitive Straits of Hormuz and close to the main east-west shipping routes, KCT is one of the world's leading container transhipment ports. Only three hours from the UAE's main centres of population, Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, KCT is an ideal transhipment hub port with numerous feeder ship connections to Gulf Ports, Iran, India, Pakistan and East Africa.
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