Swire Shipping, a leading shipping company in the Asia Pacific, is the wholly owned, deep-sea ship owning and operating arm of the multinational Swire group. With more than 150 years in the shipping industry, more than 50 of which in Fiji and the Pacific Islands, Swire Shipping is committed to enriching lives by connecting customers with communities and remains dedicated to facilitating and growing trade in regions where it operates.
Swire Shipping operates several high frequency liner shipping services in the Asia-Pacific, a transpacific liner service between North Asia and the Pacific Northwest, and specialist shipping services to the global project logistics market under its established brand, Swire Projects. The company also offers integrated logistics solutions in the Asia-Pacific, complementing its suite of liner products. Swire Shipping specialises in providing a wide range of specialist customer solutions for project, heavy lift, refrigerated, breakbulk and mini bulk cargoes, and has an experienced, dedicated team providing customers with service excellence and expert market knowledge.
Headquartered in Singapore, Swire Shipping maintains its own representative offices in more than 40 locations as well as a worldwide agency network across Asia, Europe, North America, and the South Pacific. As a multinational shipping company, Swire Shipping employs more than 3,000 people from across 52 countries and regions – more than 1,000 are based onshore, and nearly 2,000 are seagoing employees. The company seeks to create an empowered workforce that can flourish in a safe and respectful work environment, one that ensures all individuals are treated with respect and understanding and where discrimination, harassment, bullying, retaliation or intimidation of any kind are not tolerated. Swire Shipping has in place robust programmes, systems and processes to recognise its employees and support their learning and career development within the company.
With strong Management support, Swire Shipping takes a long-term view of the business and continuously invests in its people, environment, communities, and innovation and new technology.