RCL to offer twice weekly sailings for Laem Chabang - Jakarta
16 Apr 2018

Regional Container Lines (RCL) is pleased to announce an additional sailing weekly from Laem Chabang to Jakarta, following new deployment and slot arrangement on this corridor in partnership with Ocean Network Express (ONE) & Samudera Shipping Lines (SSL).

The current RTI will continue to run Laem Chabang (Wed/Thu), Port Klang (W) (Sun/Sun), Singapore (Mon/Tue), Jakarta (WED/FRI), Singapore (Sun/Mon). This string will be jointly run by RCL, ONE and SSL deploying 2 vessels with 2000 teu capacity. The maiden voyage under this arrangement will call Laem Chabang 11th April and Jakarta 18th April.

The second string RTI2 will be jointly run by RCL and ONE, also deploying 2 vessels with 2000 teu Capacity, calling Laem Chabang (Sun/Tue), Singapore (Thu/Fri), Jakarta (Sat/Mon), Singapore (Tue/Wed), Port Klang (W) (Thu/Thu), Port Klang (N) (THU/FRI). The maiden voyage for this string will call Laem Chabang on 8th April and Jakarta on 14th April.

By having slots on both strings, RCL will offer both SOC and COC customers

• Additional frequency from Laem Chabang & Jakarta with different departure days

• RTI will offer faster transit time for Jakarta to Laem Chabang, RTI2 will offer faster transit time for Laem Chabang to Jakarta respectively.


About RCL
Founded in 1979, RCL is a Thai based container shipping line. Listed on the Thai Stock Exchange since 1988, its core business is in the carriage of Shipper owned containers (SOC) and its own Carrier Owned Containers (COC) in a service network that is fully Asia centric. RCL currently owns and operates a fleet of 41 vessels with sizes ranging between 388 TEUs and 11,714 TEUs. It also has a fleet of 139,238 TEUs to support its own COC carriage as well. RCL operates a network of 91 offices made up of both owned and agency partner offices to support its operations. Today, RCL is recognised as amongst the leading SOC and Intra Asian operator by both peers and customers alike.

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