New Delhi, Feb 11(UNI) World’s largest container shipping company Maersk Line will move 16 containers on river Ganga (National Waterway-1) from Varanasi to Kolkata on Tuesday.
Maersk moves 12 million containers yearly across the globe. The firm is onboard India’s inland waterways for the first time.
Maersk moving containers on river Ganga follows similar movements already done by firms like PepsiCo, Emami Agrotech, IFFCO Fertilizers, Dabur India. With Maersk on board, the cargo from the hinterland will move directly to and from Bangladesh and rest of the world through Bay of Bengal, an official statement here on Monday said.