WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN ENTERS OCEANIA TO ASIA TRADE

WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN ENTERS OCEANIA TO ASIA TRADE

   Wallenius Wilhelmsen is entering the trade from Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Islands northbound to Taiwan, Korea and Japan in March.

   A monthly roll-on/roll-off connection will be provided between Papeete, Noumea, Mebourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Tauranga to either Keelung or Kaohsiung in Taiwan and then Inchon, Masan, Ulsan, Higashiharima, Nagoya and Yokohama.

   Once a choice has been made between Keelung or Kaohsiung for the new call in Taiwan, full schedule details will be made available, a spokesman said.

   The new one-way route is being offered as part of an existing monthly service loading in Europe and East Coast North America for Oceania, with a return cargo loaded in Korea and Japan.

   Wallenius Wilhelmsen vessels had repositioned empty from Oceania to Korea/Japan, but the introduction of four new-design heavy ro/ro vessels, operating together on a 120-day round voyage, makes this new service possible, the spokesman said.