Milaha, one of the largest and most diversified maritime and logistics companies in the Middle East with a focus on providing integrated transport and supply chain solutions, is enhancing its international presence and diverse portfolio of maritime and logistics services. The launch of its new Black Sea Express Service, a direct container feeder route linking Greece, Turkey, Georgia and Russia, is testament to this.
The new feeder service marks Milaha’s first European service linking the Mediterranean and Black Sea and demonstrates Milaha’s commitment to deliver reliable and agile services to its customers and partners globally. The new service will cater for Russian and Turkish regional trade, while also linking Greece with multiple locations in the Black Sea region, further enhancing Milaha’s portfolio of international maritime and logistics services.
Milaha President and CEO Abdulrahman Essa Al Mannai said the service reflects the company’s success in expanding its coverage into new markets, amid a rising demand for its services. The addition of the Black Sea Express Service will further cement Milaha’s position as an international service provider and reflects the company’s operational excellence by combining reliability and agility to meet customer demand in region and beyond.
Over the last one-and a-half years, Milaha has opened many new shipping lines serving a lot of new markets. The company has also introduced feeder line services in many regions. In early May last year, Milaha launched a direct container feeder service between Hamad Port and Iraq’s Umm Qasr Port. The new service was an expansion of the existing Qatar-Kuwait service that the company had launched last year.
Milaha currently calls 12 ports directly and serves more than 20 ports via its Liner services in Middle East, Indian Sub-continent, South East Asia and Europe. These include 2 ports in Oman (Sohar and Salalah), 3 ports in India (Nhava Sheva, Mundra, and Kandla), one port in Kuwait (Shuwaikh), one port in Pakistan (Karachi), one port in Sri Lanka (Colombo), and one port in Bangladesh (Chittagong), offering enhanced connectivity and transit times to Qatar and the region.
Milaha also recently inaugurated its state-of-the-art logistics city in Qatar which is spread across an area of 4,23,000sqm. “The Milaha Logistics City is the first-of-its-kind project in Qatar offering a wide range of customised services. We are layering technology on top of that, and I believe all those will add more value to our customers, said Al Mannai and added that the fast growing infrastructure development and other projects in the country is offering new opportunities for all companies, including Milaha and its subsidiaries, which are expanding and growing fast.
Milaha’s comprehensive logistics network includes over 1,000 representative offices in more than 100 countries, offering customers a truly global service.
