News / PanStar increases Busan-Osaka capacity as express cargo volumes return

PanStar Dream. Credit Tom Park

South Korean liner group Panstar has increased its Busan-Osaka sailings from three a week to four after express cargo volumes swelled five-fold in May.

Ro-ro vessel PanStar Dream (pictured), which has 180 teu of container capacity, was idled as tourism ground to a halt during the first wave of Covid in 2020, and has been reactivated to join PanStar Genie 2 on the Busan-Osaka route.

PanStar Enterprises, which operates the ro-pax service through PanStar Line Dot Com, said it delivered 32,660 parcels ...