AFTER five years of trading into the northwest of Australia under the name Mocean Shipping Pte Ltd, the company is being renamed MM Line Pte Ltd, effective from March 1.
    The move is said to be "in keeping with our continued commitment to support our long-term customers with break-bulk shipping services into Western Australia", said the company.
    MM Line Pte Ltd is an independently managed company and also an affiliate of the Pt Meratus Group of companies (www.meratusline.com), which owns and operates 49 vessels on liner trades within the Indonesian archipelago.
"This change heralds our re-instated focus on delivering a regular and reliable service. All previous staff of Mocean will be retained and the new team will comprise of some additional experienced personnel from the southeast Asia-northwest Australia trade lane.
    "MM Line also has the pleasure to announce the opening of their office in Fremantle (MM Line Pty Ltd) managed by Paul Zaccaria. This combination of focus on reliability added with the enhanced knowledge whilst working hard to better understand our customers will allow real-time effective decision making, improved service and above all maintain the competitive edge for our customers," it said.
    MM Line will in no way be commercially represented by any of the affiliated companies within the Meratus group, such as its forwarding subsidiaries, MIF Services, MB Line NVOCC or Meratus Line.
All commercial matters will be handled entirely by MM Line staff in Singapore and Australia.

(source:shipping online)