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Sri Lankan owned, Shamrock G Shipping Pvt Ltd which launched its first shipping service "Pearl City Express" between Colombo and Tuticorin in November last year will add on Cochin in India, as its second port of call this week.

This container feeder service, and the only dedicated one of its kind, according to the operators of the 279 teu capacity vessel "M.V. Mathish", has so far done 12 voyages, transporting and relocating containers between Colombo and Tuticorin since its November launch.

Capt Nalin Abeyratne of Shamrock G. Shipping said that the initial success of the Colombo Tuticorin sector coupled with the subsequent demand for a second such service, has led to M.V. Mathish servicing Cochin. He cited the features of the vessel "M.V. Mathish", its dedicated service, coupled with the best freight rates they offer, as being the crucial factors for the success of the barely two month old service.

Capt Abeyratne is optimistic that its cost effective freight rates will attract main lines to continue using Colombo as the hub for transhipment in the region.

This, he is confident, will lead to Shamrock G. Shipping servicing an increasing number of regional ports before the end of 2002.

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