Höegh Autoliners, one of the world’s largest operators in the rolling stock and vehicle transportation segment, has added the port of Charleston, South Carolina, to its Middle East service, and the first ship to dock will leave with US-built BMWs bound for export markets.
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The first of two vessels initially scheduled per month, the Höegh Bangkok, is scheduled to arrive at the Union Pier Terminal on 29 January to load cars from BMW’s US ‘transplant’.
The service is expected to load more than 5,000 vehicles annually that Höegh previously moved through a “competing South Atlantic port”.
The shipping line’s Middle East service offers extensive port coverage, reaching from Mediterranean ports, into the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf and India. Transshipment onto other company vessels brings access to other ports in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Höegh operates approximately 70 vessels through 31 offices in four regions. Customers include other automakers – it ships about 2m units a year and makes about 3,000 port calls.
