MV OEL Emirates makes maiden call to Colombo

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MV OEL Emirates, recently acquired by Dubai based feeder operator Orient Express Lines, made her maiden call at Colombo recently in January 2014.

The vessel which has a dead weight of 24,374 M/T and a container capacity of 1613 TEUs was berthed at the Jaya Container Terminal where the ship handled in excess of 350 TEUs destined to the Arabian Gulf Ports. Orient Express Lines (OEL) first commenced operations in Colombo in 1992 and has since then been serving the Colombo Trade unbroken. Today OEL has services from Colombo to an array of Ports in the region which includes Chennai, Cochin, Tuticorin, Male and Chittagong. Orient Express Lines is a member of the Transworld Group of Companies in Dubai and is one of the fastest growing companies in the region which specialises in feeder business, ship management, warehouse and distribution, ship agency, project cargo, freight forwarding and NVOCC to name a few. To mark the maiden call of the vessel at Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), an exchange of tokens of goodwill took place onboard the vessel between the ship’s Master Captain Lopes Pereira and Director (Operations) Upali De Soyza as well as Orient Express Lines Vice president Marius Gomez.

SLPA Chief Manager (Operations) Nimal Jayatissa, SLPA Deputy Chief Manager (Operations) Lal Weerasinghe, SLPA Senior Manager (Operations) Jayantha Weerarathne, SLPA Senior Manager (Billing) S. Miskin, executive staff members of SLPA and the Orient Express Lines were also present at the occasion.