en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, as the "Xin Taicang" vessel, fully loaded with chemicals, photovoltaic glass, and construction raw materials, slowly departed from Haiphong Port, it marked the successful completion of the maiden voyage of COSCO Shipping Holdings' new premium service—SEI2—to Haiphong, Vietnam. This is the first direct container shipping route from Northern Vietnam to India, injecting new momentum into the China-Vietnam and Far East-South Asia trade corridors.
The SEI2 service, with Haiphong as its core node in Northern Vietnam, leverages specialized vessel deployment and precise schedule management to achieve a direct transit time of approximately 15 days from Northern Vietnam to Mundra Port, India. This reduces transportation time by 5-7 days compared to previous transshipment routes, significantly enhancing logistics efficiency and supply chain responsiveness.
The service operates on a closed-loop model with a port rotation of Qinzhou—Yangpu—Haiphong—Singapore—Mundra—Singapore—Hong Kong—Qinzhou, maintaining a stable bi-weekly schedule. Relying on specialized vessel configurations, it ensures schedule punctuality and transport efficiency, injecting new vitality into regional cross-border shipping.
The SEI2 service represents a key strategic deployment by the company to support the "dual circulation" of domestic and international markets and to deepen the linkage between the New Western Land-Sea Corridor and the Hainan Free Trade Port. It provides efficient, diversified, and cost-effective logistics options for direct exports of goods such as paper products, chemicals, and grains and oils from the Hainan hinterland to South Asia, enhancing local export efficiency, broadening overseas sales channels, and deepening logistics exchanges and economic cooperation between Hainan and regions along Southeast Asia and South Asia. In the future, this new service will form a network synergy with existing premium services like PMX and CI1, further upgrading the overall transshipment connectivity and comprehensive operational service capabilities, helping customers seize new opportunities in Far East-South Asia trade logistics.
Going forward, COSCO Shipping Holdings will build the SEI2 service into a brand for the direct express route from Northern Vietnam to India, promoting the deep integration of local Vietnamese export enterprises into the global supply chain network and facilitating the quality upgrade of regional economic and trade cooperation. Leveraging its integrated capabilities in "container shipping + ports + related logistics," the company aims to provide customers with efficient, stable, and predictable end-to-end logistics solutions, steadily expand the coverage of shipping services in Southeast Asia and South Asia, upgrade comprehensive cross-border transport service capabilities, and fully ensure the smooth operation of the southbound logistics corridor.
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