Pacific Forum Line
The Pacific Forum Line (PFL) is a shipping alliance of the Pacific Islands Forum based in Auckland , New Zealand .
Companies
The company was founded in 1978 by 12 Pacific Forum countries as a kind of shipping alliance and has since served to secure maritime trade services in the Pacific region and to promote economic development in the Pacific . Their establishment became necessary because, with the ever-increasing spread of containers, fewer and fewer cargo ships called at the small states of the South Pacific. The company not only serves to generate profits , but also to promote regional development.
In 2012, the New Zealand government held 23.1% of the shares in the Samoa- registered company , but only 8.3% of the voting rights, as the votes were evenly distributed among the 12 member states of the South Pacific Forum.
With a rejuvenated service network, the Pacific Forum Line , managed by Neptune Pacific Line as of 2018, covers Samoa , Tonga , Cook Islands , Fiji and Papua New Guinea .
Ships
In 2018 the company still operated six ships, the Capitaine Cook , the Capitaine Dampier , the Capitaine Tasman , the Southern Lily , the Micronesian Pride and the Forum Samoa 4 .
Web links
- Homepage . Pacific Forum Line,accessed May 14, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About Us . Pacific Forum Line , accessed May 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Pacific Forum Line Limited . In: Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit . New Zealand Government , archived from the original on June 16, 2012 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
- ↑ Our Fleet . Pacific Forum Line , accessed May 14, 2018 .