Singapore’s Bengal Tiger Line (BTL) has expanded its network to the Mediterranean with the introduction of a Turkey – Red Sea – West India service.
Alphaliner is reporting that the Andrew Winter-led container feeder operator is providing this new service through slots on a West India – Mediterranean trade, together with Turkish carriers Arkas and Turkon Line.
The service launched last month is covered by two 2,500 teu Arkas ships and two 2,700-2,800 teu vessels from Turkon, with Bengal Tiger Line involved in the loop’s entire rotation.
The ships call at Istanbul, Ambarli, Yarimca, Nemrut Bay, Mersin, Aqaba, Jeddah, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Jeddah, Aqaba, El Dekheila and Izmit.
Last month, BTL announced changes at the top, with industry veteran Bill Smart retiring as chief executive and Winter, who has spent nearly 24 years at feeder giant X-press Feeders, taking over the baton.
The company, which was founded in 1986 in Hamburg and settled in Singapore in 2009, was acquired by Tim Hartnoll-led private equity venture HICO Investment Group in 2022.