MSC to hub at Beirut
In what the Lebanon Daily Star says is the first deal of its kind in the country, MSC is to use the Port of Beirut as a regional transhipment hub, feeding traffic from the Far East for Turkey, Syria, Egypt and other East Med destinations, instead of using Marsaxxlok or Piraeus for this purpose and cutting days off the overall transport time – as much as 20 days (from 35 to 15), MSC’s regional manager MSC Kheirallah al-Zein is quoted.
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