WWL adds PCTCs to North America/South America service

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics said it will add two pure car truck carriers to its services between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, expanding its ability to move automobiles between North and South America.

Auto manufacturers are selling and producing more and more in the world's emerging markets, said Christopher. Connor, president of WWL Americas. By launching this new service, we aim to provide our customers with cost-effective access to the largest auto markets throughout the Americas. Our factory to dealer solution provides our customers with competitive power and agility in these challenging markets.

The two PCTCs, the Tasco and Tagus, will allow WWL to move 3,000 cars per month. The company expects to move cars both north and south.

WWL will also continue to offer ocean transportation services to makers of construction and agricultural equipment, buses, trucks and non-container cargo such as boats and project cargo. In the past the company used chartered container roll-on/roll-off ships to move project and high and heavy cargo within the Americas.

The company will continue to use two of those ships, Nordborg and Tyrusland, so it will now have four ships operating in the services. The company only utilizes the ro/ro decks on the con-ro ships.

The new ships will connect the ports of Galveston, Texas; Veracruz, Mexico; Manzanillo, Panama; Cartagena, Columbia; Puerto Cabello, Venezuela; and Vitoria, Rio Grande and Santos in Brazil.

The company just moved its port of call in Texas this week to Galveston from Houston. 

Source: American Shipper