The service provides weekly calls every Thursday.
Its port rotation is New York – Baltimore - Savannah - Port Everglades – Freeport (Grand Bahamas) - Suez (transit) - Jeddah - Colombo - Singapore - Chiwan – Hong Kong - Shanghai - Ningbo - Singapore – Salala – New York.
The SLPA said it expects MSC, the world’s second-largest container shipping line, to do more than 1,800 container moves per vessel.
The return of MSC's service to the JCT is an 'endorsement' by the liner community of the SLPA's development plans, including the Colombo Port Expansion Project, and building of a new port in southern Hambantota, it said.
SLPA chairman Priyath Wickrama said improved efficiency and productivity demonstrated by the JCT staff helped win back the MSC service.
