Arkas’ container ship Lucien GA in the Bosphorus, October 2020. The company is about to start a service from the Mediterranean to the US.
KRISPEN ATKINSON
Turkish container ship operator Arkas is partnering with Hapag-Lloyd and Turkon to enter the US market. It has selected the 27,910gt Sine A, a 2,824-TEU capacity container ship built in Korea in 2008, to operate on the United States Express (USX) service.
The addition of the Malteseregistered ship will make the service, which connects the United States with Mediterranean and Black Sea ports, into a weekly operation, served by seven ships. Arkas traded as EMES Shipping from 1996, before it took its current name in 2010. The company has been engaged in Mediterranean and Black Sea services, and currently operates 50 container vessels and is Turkey’s largest container operator.