News / HMM 'extra loader' services hit nine this month, adding Australia

Yoo Ga-eun

Korean flagship liner operator HMM has extended its “extra loader” services to Australia, starting today.

The multipurpose HMM Ulsan, which has 1,888 teu container capacity, will depart Busan today and arrive in Melbourne on 22 September and Sydney six days later.

HMM, which began ad hoc sailings in August last year on transpacific routes, said there would be nine such voyages this month, the most in such a period.

The voyages cater for small- and medium-sized enterprises which have difficulty securing shipping slots, ...