{"id":4487,"date":"2020-02-15T20:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2020-02-15T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:51:55","slug":"pil-exits-transpacific-market-to-boost-presence-in-north-south-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pil-exits-transpacific-market-to-boost-presence-in-north-south-trade\/4487\/","title":{"rendered":"PIL Exits Transpacific Market to Boost Presence in North-South Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Singapore\u2019s shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) has decided to withdraw its services from the Transpacific market in an effort \u201cto optimize the company\u2019s network efficiency\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result of this service realignment, PIL\u2019s last Transpacific sailing will be in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe company has taken this decision as part of a wider strategic review of its business,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0PIL said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cHenceforth, PIL will focus on further strengthening its position in the North-South Trade such as Africa, Middle East \/ Red Sea, India Sub-Continent, Latin America, and Oceania.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PIL is one of the top ten containership operators in the world. The company owns and operates a fleet of around 150 containerships, bulkers and multipurpose vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore\u2019s shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) has decided to withdraw its services from the Transpacific market in an effort \u201cto optimize the company\u2019s network efficiency\u201d. As a result of this service realignment, PIL\u2019s last Transpacific sailing will be in March 2020. \u201cThe company has taken this decision as part of a wider strategic review &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,57],"tags":[1052,522,62,142],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-shipping-news","tag-north-south","tag-pil","tag-shipping","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}