Ecu-Line Antwerp, which operates a hub at Malaysia's Port Kelang, now offers a weekly service from north Europe to Dubai with a transit time of 16 days.

Via Dubai, onward carriage is offered to the Upper Gulf, that is to Doha, Sharjah and Ajman and to Aden on the Red Sea.

Ecu-Line Dubai has its own warehouses in the freeport of Jebel Ali. The complex, named Eurocentre, is a storage depot of 1,800 square metres, of which import freight is delivered to the local market, while the central segment of 3,500 square metres is used to store and handle export and transshipment loads. The company has also a "delivery order" office in the centre of the city, near the old port, Port Rashid.

Dubai is one of five of the most important hubs for the Ecu-Line organisation and cargo originating in Europe, the Far East and the US can be transshipped to destinations in the Upper Gulf, the Indian subcontinent or to east Africa.

In the other direction, freight coming from the region combined with transit cargo will form the basis of groupage export services to Antwerp, Hamburg and Felixstowe and south Europe, to Barcelona and Genoa in the western Mediterranean, and Lattakia, Limassol, Istanbul and Beirut in the east Med.

Cargo destined for the Far East, Australia and New Zealand is shipped via the Ecu hub, Malaysia's Port Kelang.