Next year the Turkish shipping company Arkas Line will extend its network of scheduled services to India. The The new service, which will be inaugurated on 10 February, will be called India Med Service (IMS) and will be built with four container ships with a capacity of 2,500-2,800 TEUs. The new line, which will pass through the Suez Canal, it will call at the ports of Ambarli, Evyap, Aliaga, Mersin, Aqaba, Jeddah, Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Jeddah, Aqaba, Alexandria and Ambarli.

Coinciding with the launch of the IMS service, the company Turkish will restructure its services in the Mediterranean merging the three GPS (Great Pendulum Service) services, EMS (East Med Morocco Service) and SEM (Spain-East Med) in the single new Blue Med Service (BMS) service that will make stopovers at the ports of Alexandria, Beirut, Lattakia, Mersin, Aliaga, Genoa, La Spezia, Tanger Med, Casablanca, Valencia, Barcelona, Fos sur Mer, Genoa, La Spezia, Salerno, Alessandria. If the new BMS will maintain Italian ports of Genoa, La Spezia and Salerno, with the new line, the port of Vado Ligure will lose the ports of call of the EMS service.