PIL will take a weekly average of 425 TEU slots from Oakland and Los Angeles to Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Tauranga under the AOS brand, reported Alphaliner.
The shipping line has been serving the US-Australia-New Zealand route since April 2010 with its China Transpacific Australasia (CTP) service that calls at Long Beach, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Tauranga, Brisbane, Manila, Keelung, Ningbo, Shanghai.