Eastern Mediterranean shipping company (MSC) has its two far East to Eastern Mediterranean routes of Dragon and Tiger extend the voyage by one week, and increase by two two-20 containers the ship, to a certain extent reduce the surplus capacity of large ships.
Dragon Airlines a total of configured 13 13,800 and 14,000 20 cabinets ship, its round trip added 91 days for current far East to the Eastern Mediterranean's longest voyage on the route.
Port rotation for the route: Gioia Tauro, Valencia, Barcelona, La Spezia, Fox port, Jeddah, Salala, Jebel Ali, Singapore, Shenzhen Chiwan, Hong Kong, Dalian, Xingang, Qingdao, Busan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Chiwan, Shenzhen, Yantian, Hong Kong, Singapore, return Gioia Tauro.
Tiger routes configuration 11 13,000 to 14,000 20 cabinets ship, round-trip voyage to 77 days. The route mainly covers Eastern Mediterranean East area, its port rotation as follows: Beirut, Piraeus, Istanbul, Piraeus, Jeddah, aiweiyapu, and Salala, Singapore, Pusan, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Chiwan, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jeddah, returned to Beirut.
These two round-trip flights are made of low-speed mode of navigation, eastbound average speed of about 14 knots, w/an average speed of 16 to 18 knots.
