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ICTSI South Pacific, the Papua New Guinea unit of International Container Terminal Services Inc., has welcomed the maiden call of Meratus Line’s newly launched PNG Express service
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The PNG Express is the first Indonesian service to operate in Papua New Guinea
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The service offers direct connections to Indonesia via Jakarta and Surabaya, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and East Timor via Dili, and launches every 28 days
ICTSI South Pacific, the unit of International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) in Papua New Guinea (PNG), welcomed the recent maiden call of the newly launched PNG Express service by Meratus Line.
The PNG Express is the first Indonesian service to operate in Papua New Guinea, ICTSI said in a statement. The service offers direct connections to Indonesia via Jakarta and Surabaya, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and East Timor via Dili, and launches every 28 days.
Meratus is a maritime and logistics service provider in Indonesia.
“This new service highlights the strategic importance of our ports in facilitating both regional and global trade for Papua New Guinea,” ICTSI South Pacific chief executive Robert Maxwell said.
“We look forward to enhancing our partnership and cooperation with Meratus Line to provide PNG importers and exporters with increasingly frequent vessel connections to our neighbors in Indonesia and East Timor.”
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The Meratus Gorontalo, the first vessel to sail under the PNG Express service, made its inaugural calls to Motukea International Container Terminal (MIT) in Port Moresby on February 22, and to South Pacific International Container Terminal (SPICT) in Lae on February 26.
SPICT commissioned recently two new post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes, the first of their kind and the largest port equipment in PNG. MIT, on the other hand, added another mobile harbor crane to enhance capacity and productivity.
