The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri Liner) has entered into a space charter agreement with Hamburg-based specialist for project and heavy lift liner services Rickmers-Linie.
Under the terms of the deal, the companies would charter space from each other covering the ports on the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, as well as ports in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, Iraq and the Yemen.
The space would be chartered out on vessels operated by the companies and authorizes Rickmers-Linie and Bahri Liner to coordinate arrangements with regard to that space in the aforementioned trades.
“With this space charter agreement both Bahri Liner and Rickmers are able to broaden their networks to offer our customers a wider choice of possibilities on the high level of reliability of the liner services of our companies,” Ulrich Ulrichs, CEO of Rickmers-Linie, said.