PNG Logistics Co. Invests to Better Service South Pacific

Papua New Guinea’s oldest business group, Steamships Trading Company Ltd, has invested millions in its Logistics Division in re-fleeting and new equipment with several million more to be expended prior to 2025.

The re-fleeting, together with changes to provide more comprehensive and intermodal end-to-end logistics solutions, ensures that Steamships has ample capacity to increasingly service the logistics requirements of not only its PNG clients but those in the broader region.

Steamships’ Logistics Division is PNG’s largest operator of transport and logistics, with a more extensive service network than any other logistics provider.

The division comprises four operating entities -- Consort Express Lines [domestic & regional shipping], EastWest Transport [general transport, customs clearance & warehousing, fuel transport], JV Port Services [stevedoring & handling, heavy equipment leasing], and Pacific Towing [harbour towage & marine services, and operates 16 offices and agencies across the country.

The division’s four operating entities have each recently made multimillion-dollar investments in re-fleeting (ships, tugs, barges, containers, trucks, fuel tankers), as well as in new machinery (cranes, reach stackers, empty container handlers, forklifts).

Central to Steamships’ capacity to service countries in the South Pacific and beyond, is its shipping business, Consort Express Lines (‘Consort’).

In addition to being PNG’s premier coastal shipper, Consort is a regional project cargo specialist and has several vessels (i.e., conventional container vessels, landing craft, and tug and barge

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Meanwhile, President Toroama extended his gratitude to the former Minister for Police and Correctional Services Hon. Thomas Tari, Member for South Bougainville Veterans; former Minister for Technical Services Hon. Dr. Joe Kim Suamaru, Member for Kopi; and the former Minister for Mineral Energy Resources Hon. Rodney Osioco, Member for Kokoda, sets) available for both domestic as well as international charter.

Consort has experience with all categories of project cargo, such as overweight and oversized, sensitive [including dangerous], and break bulk.

Consort works in partnership with its international shipping partner Swire Shipping, as well as ‘sister’ Logistics Division entity, EastWest Transport to provide clients – no matter where they are in the region – with a full suite of logistics services (including container packing, stevedoring, customs clearance, warehousing, storage and laydown facilities, depot to wharf transport, and others).

“Our key competitive advantage is that we focus on giving clients exactly what they need” says Thomas Bellamy, Chief Operating Officer of Steamships’ Logistics Division.

“Increasingly this means comprehensive and integrated logistics solutions.

With our network we can pick up any kind of project cargo from suppliers –no matter where they are in the world – and deliver it safely and efficiently to a client’s doorstep.”

Bellamy reports that additional competitive advantages enjoyed by Steamships’ Logistics Division are its safety and local content credentials.

“We are firmly committed to working towards ‘Zero Harm’. This means reducing injuries, environmental damage, and asset damage in the workplace through an embedded ‘Work Seif’ culture. Furthermore, Steamships is a proud Melanesian business with an exceptional track record of helping drive the development of the communities in which it operates – 98 percent of its 2,600+ staff are Papua New Guineans.

To learn more about Steamships’ Logistics Division, including its project cargo, charter, and end-to-end logistics solutions: www.steamships.com.pg.

Consort Man Wharf Ship

Project cargo specialist, Steamships Logistics Division, has a fleet of nearly 30 ships, tugs, and barges, more than 200 trucking assets, as well as an expanse of machinery and equipment. It employs more than 1,700 staff (98 % PNG nationals).

for their time and effort.

“You have served the government loyally in the last three years and I thank you for your service to the government and the people,” Toroama said.

The Cabinet Ministers have been called on to build the human resource capacity through education, improve health services through an effective Bougainville health system, provide infrastructure to improve transportation and the movement of services to create an environment that is conducive and able to sustain growth in Bougainville’s economy and prosperity in the communities.

“These are all very achievable goals if we collaborate effectively at the political and administrative levels of the Autonomous Bougainville Government.”