PACIFIC Ocean specialist carrier Matson and Swire Shipping have entered into a vessel-sharing partnership, starting from January.
Swire Shipping will charter and deploy a
vessel on the new service, while Matson will deploy the Imua II and the
Olomana. Both ships are 8,000 deadweight tonnes.
The service will depart Auckland, New Zealand, and will serve Tonga,
Samoa (Apia), the Cook Islands and Fiji with a departure from Auckland
every ten days, reported New York's FreightWaves.
"Today's launch will enable us to offer expanded global coverage into
the Pacific Islands, as well as specifically providing New Zealand
customers with a new direct service alternative.
"We will be working closely with customers?to explore opportunities for
landside delivery in the Pacific Islands as well as offering innovative
digital solutions," said Swire Shipping general manager Jeremy Sutton.
Executives involved with the South Pacific Islands trade have previously
confirmed to FreightWaves that there has traditionally been extensive
and extremely hard-fought competition between the carriers to/from this
region.
Matson originally entered the South Pacific trades in the 1920s. It
re-entered the trades in 2012/2013 after it bought Auckland's Reef
Shipping, which entered into receivership. Matson nowadays offers
several services to the South Pacific Islands from Australia, New
Zealand and the west coast of the United States.
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