Wan Hai Lines was founded in 1965 in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 as a shipping company. At the beginning, Wan Hai's business was mainly on the log transportation among Taiwan, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and the Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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. In 1976, in order to respond to the rapid development of international trade

International trade

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 in the Asia Pacific area and the trend of international transportation containerization

Containerization

Containerization is a system of freight transport based on a range of steel intermodal containers...

, Wan Hai has entered the business of container vessel shipping. Wan Hai has more than 45 years of experience in shipping, this has made Wan Hai a leading container shipping company in sia]. More recently Wan Hai expanded its Asia shipping network to services to US

United States

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, South America

South America

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, Africa

Africa

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, Middle East

Middle East

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 and urope.

Environmental efforts

Wan Hai was awarded for its environmental efforts by the Port of Long Beach

Port of Long Beach

The Port of Long Beach, also known as Long Beach’s Harbor Department, is the 2nd busiest container port in the USA. It adjoins the separate Port of Los Angeles. Acting as a major gateway for U.S.-Asian trade, the port occupies of land with of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California...

 for the third year in succession.
Fourteen carriers were honored by the Port of Long Beach in April,2010 for their excellent contribution to the 2009 Green Flag Plan. Nearly 150 carriers participated in the voluntary program last year, WAN HAI Lines was the only Taiwan carrier to receive an award. The fourteen carriers all achieved 90% compliance

Compliance

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with the plan. WAN HAI lines was 100% compliant with the 40 nautical miles speed program and also promoted Taiwan's environmental efforts to the world.

IT Development

With the brains behind the main stream progress of its own internal development of application, Port Klang IT division has establish the way for new methods of delivering results for the company's vast improvement to its own IT Arm.