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About Pacific International Lines
We serve customers in over 500 locations, with a focus on China, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Oceania and the Pacific Islands. Operating a fleet of around 100 container vessels, we provide shipping services and solutions to customers in over 90 countries worldwide.
At PIL, we are driving connectivity for customers and partners with markets and communities. Our people-centric approach puts customers first, by leveraging expertise and technology to provide efficient and sustainable solutions.
We supplement our core liner shipping business with container manufacturing and logistics services to provide solutions across the supply chain.
Guided by a future-focused vision, we are committed to sustainability and making a positive impact on communities.
Among the world’s top container
shipping lines
TEUs of fleet capacity
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Servicing customers in
> 90 countries
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“Driving Connectivity” encapsulates PIL’s ongoing mission to build connections between businesses, and the markets we serve. It conveys our aim to bridge the gaps across oceans through reliable, efficient and innovative service. It also speaks to PIL’s commitment to develop stronger connections with our customers, partners and the communities in which we operate.
In line with the aim of “Driving Connectivity”, PIL is providing reliable, efficient and innovative services for businesses to connect to the markets they serve.
One of the first foreign shipping lines to enter China before the opening of the country, PIL offers customers 28 container liner sailings a week out of China, and has 25 registered branches in the country, including its regional headquarters in Shanghai.
PIL also has a strong presence in Africa, having served the continent since the 1970s. Today, PIL’s extensive services cover close to 30 countries in Africa, with a focus on key economies in the East, West, South and Horn of Africa. With 13 container liner and feeder services into and out of Africa per week, PIL facilitates vital trade connections in the continent.
These shipping services are complemented by a wide network of intermodal services into the African hinterland using truck, rail and barge. This is backed by PIL’s agency network of 23 offices, and four logistics companies offering a range of services such as depot operations (Egypt), warehousing (Egypt and Tanzania), and trucking (Sudan).
PIL operates services to both the West Coast and East Coast of South America, and is actively involved in several partnerships on both sides of the continent. We have 5 services plying routes across Asia and 9 countries in Latin America per week. With our own offices in Mexico, Peru and Brazil, and a network of agencies servicing 6 other countries in Latin America, we are actively supporting our customers on the ground. With the growing South American market, we are continually looking to expand and develop routes and offices in the region.
PIL has some three decades of diverse shipping experience for connecting customers to markets throughout Oceania and beyond. Together with our partners, we operate 10 service routes on a weekly or fortnightly basis between Asia, China and the ports of Australia and New Zealand as well as the South Pacific Islands.
We are supported by 8 offices in Australia and 3 in New Zealand to provide value-added services to our customers. We deliver a complete and versatile suite of services to move your products efficiently and sustainably, including intermodal services such as rail, truck and barge for inland transportation.
The largest home-grown carrier in Southeast Asia, PIL provides strong connection through over 20 service routes to countries across the region. Supported by our agencies strategically located in over 30 offices across the region, we are able to offer competitive solutions and quick transit times within Southeast Asia, as well as to the rest of our global network.
Through Mariana Express Lines (MELL), PIL provides niche routes that service the Pacific Islands. We carry containers between China, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and islands in the Pacific such as Guam and Saipan through 5 liner services and feeder services on a fortnightly basis. Through our 43 offices in 33 countries on the ground, we have a good understanding of the needs of our customers and market.
PIL has been providing the Indian subcontinent with comprehensive container shipping coverage for over four decades. We have 5 direct sailings per week connecting India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka with key ports in China and the Red Sea. We have both direct services & common feeders, with transhipment at Port Klang and Singapore for East Malaysia, South East Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands etc. We have 13 direct branch offices & 7 sub-agency offices in the region to serve our customers and connect them to more markets in PIL’s broader network of services.
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