Singapore-registered carrier Greta Shipping has inaugurated a new weekly container shuttle service connecting Salalah in Oman with Djibouti, enhancing maritime trade links between the Arabian Sea and East Africa.
The RS1 shuttle service—named for regional shuttle operations rather than the Red Sea—will initially deploy a vessel with a capacity of around 1,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units). Greta Shipping plans to boost capacity to approximately 1,700 TEU as demand on the route grows, signaling optimism about cargo flows between the Gulf and Horn of Africa markets.
Unlike some services impacted by ongoing shipping lane changes and geopolitical tensions in the Red Sea and Suez regions, the RS1 route operates outside the Red Sea basin, focusing purely on direct shuttle connectivity between Oman and Djibouti—a key transshipment and logistics hub for East Africa.
The launch represents the latest step in Greta Shipping’s network expansion since its founding, as the young carrier builds out regional services aimed at improving trade reliability and offering alternatives to established liner alliances.