Blue Water Shipping has announced the Kumul Service - a new regular liner service between North Asia and Papua New Guinea (PNG). The service will be an extension to the current Blue Water Shipping liner service through to Lihir, PNG, and will now offer customers a further solution into Lae.

Steven Lofaro, Regional Director, Energy, Ports and Projects Oceania, sees a growing demand for cargo capacity, particularly for Breakbulk cargoes, in and out of Papua New Guinea. The Kumul service, operating with the MV Gala - a multipurpose vessel with a single lift capacity of 150 mt . enables Blue Water Shipping to provide a regular and efficient solution that can benefit a wide range of industries due to the ability to receive containerised, break-bulk, project and out-of-gauge cargo.

“It is exciting to offer our industry a regular and reliable service. The solution will help strengthen the supply chain for organisations based in PNG, focusing on optimisation through both the importing and exporting of equipment in and out of PNG”.

The maiden voyage will depart from Asia early-December. Moving forward, the service will offer regular sailings from China, Korea, and Japan into PNG every 30 days.

For Steven Lofaro, the service complements the Blue Water Shipping capabilities within Projects Logistics to ensure efficient cargo flows for our customers.

As a full end-to-end provider, we offer additional services, including landside freight, consolidation, piece checking, warehousing, cargo handling, and customs clearance. Globally, Blue Water has more than 70 offices worldwide, and the company provides all logistics services in modern supply chain management.

Sailing schedule

Vessel

Gala

Gala

Gala

Voyage

401

402

403

Singapore

3-Dec

4-Jan

6-Feb

Port Klang

1-Dec

2-Jan

4-Feb

Belawan

3-Dec

4-Jan

6-Feb

Mundra

28-Nov

30-Dec

1-Feb

Shanghai

5-Dec

6-Jan

8-Feb

Dalian

10-Dec

12-Jan

14-Feb

Qingdao

7-Dec

8-Jan

10-Feb

Ningbo

8-Dec

9-Jan

11-Feb

Busan

15-Dec

16-Jan

18-Feb

Moji

18-Dec

21-Feb

Kobe

3-Jan

Lihir

29-Dec

14-Jan

4-Mar

Lae

2-Jan

18-Jan

8-Mar