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1980 | Subsidiaries and agents in global expansion

The global economy is booming and vehicle transportation expands internationally. Wallenius Lines grows dramatically, modernises and expands its fleet and continues to lead technological developments in transoceanic car carrying. A number of PCTC’s are delivered and a number of charter arrangements are being made. Wallenius Lines consolidates its global operations by acquiring several of its agents.

1980

New president
After 10 years as president, John Kleberg takes the position as executive chairman. Arne Koch is appointed president of Wallenius Lines.

Offshore ventures
Between 1980 and 1983, Wallenius Lines purchases stakes in Consafe’s service and accommodations platforms for offshore activities. These offshore ventures are sold in 1986.

The last bulk cargo carrier
MS AIDA and MS OTELLO are converted from being combined car/bulk cargo carriers into pure car carriers. Their cargo capacity increases from 3,500 to 6,400 cars.

1981

Delivery of new vessels
PCTC’s MS FIGARO and MS MADAME BUTTERFLY are delivered. One year later the sister vessels MS CARMEN and MS MEDEA are delivered. Their cargo capacity is 5,230 cars, or 2,380 cars and 500 trucks. In response to customer demand for complex cargo combinations, vessels whith a maximum deck height of as much as 6.5 metres can be offered.

1982

Asian subsidiaries
Wallenius Lines consolidates its position on the Japanese market and acquires its Japanese agent, which changes its name to Wallenius Lines (Japan) Ltd. In Singapore. Wallenius Lines (Singapore) Pte Ltd is founded.

1983

The fleet expands
Wallenius Lines places its largest shipbuilding order to date. MS TRISTRAN and MS ISOLDE, with capacity to carry 5,290 cars or 2,420 cars and 500 trucks´and MS FAUST and MS FALSTAFF, with capacity of 5,410 cars or 2,570 cars and 500 trucks are ordered for delivery in 1985.
MS TOSCA’S sister vessel, MS AVESTA, is purchased and renamed MS ANIARA. The vessel can carry 5,640 cars, or 3,490 cars and 360 trucks.
MS KAIJIN MARU, a vessel operated on charter, is purchased and renamed MS PARSIFAL. The vessel has the capacity to carry 2,900 cars, or 2,500 cars and 130 trucks.
MS AEGEAN BREEZE, MS ARABIAN BREEZE, MS ASIAN BREEZE and MS BALTIC BREEZE, with their capacity to carry 3,200 cars or 1,600 cars and 240 trucks, are contracted on long-term charter and then purchased when the charter contract expires.

Own agent in the USA
Wallenius Lines purchases Motorships Inc, its agent on the US east coast.

1984

Partnerships in Brazil and Norway
Wallenius Lines and a Brazilian shipping company, Transroll, set up a jointly owned marketing and ship operating company, Wallenius Transroll do Brazil, which is active until 1990. In Norway, Wallenius establishes a shipbroking company, Wallnor A/S, and runs it until 1994.

Delivery of a new container and RoRo vessel
MS ATLANTIC CONCERT, with its 614 car and 2,104 TEU capacity, is delivered and chartered to and operated by the ACL (Atlantic Container Line) consortium, in which Wallenius has a 20 per cent interest.

1985

Main shareholder in Argonaut
Wallenius Lines acquires 25 per cent of the shares in the tanker shipping company, Argonaut, which makes it the largest single shareholder in the company. The stake is later raised to 50 per cent, and then sold off in its entirety in 1994.

1986

Fully owned family company again
The Wallenius-Kleberg families purchases the Axel Johnson’s holding in the company, bringing the company back into family ownership again.

1987

Own agent in France
Together with its Belgian agent Cobelfret NV, Wallenius Lines forms Motorships SA, a shipping agency in Paris.

1989

Stake in Dutch agent
Wallenius Lines acquires 18 per cent of the shares in Broekman Motorships, the company’s agent in Holland.

New head office
Wallenius Lines moves its head office in Stockholm from Swedenborgsgatan 2 to a new building at Swedenborgsgatan 19. The boundary of the parish of Maria Magdalena, to which the company has belonged ever since its formation, is redrawn to include No. 19.

ACL consortium reorganised
Wallenius Lines sells its 20 per cent interest in Atlantic Container Line, ACL, when the consortium is restructured. However, Wallenius Lines makes a space charter contract for the utilisation of the car space in the ACL vessels.

The Fleet 1970-1979

Owner: Wallenius Lines Singapore
Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
Flag: SGP
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 3100
Capacity car/trucks: 1530/260
Length (m): 164
Beam (m): 28
Draft (m): 8.4
Deadweight (m/t): 12,527
Gross tonnage: 27,876
Main engine/Power (kW): 8,053
Delivered: 1983
Builder: Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co
Operator: UECC

Owner: Wallenius Lines Singapore
Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
Flag: SGP
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 3100
Capacity car/trucks: 1530/260
Length (m): 164
Beam (m): 28
Draft (m): 8.4
Deadweight (m/t): 12,577
Gross tonnage: 28,116
Main engine/Power (kW): 8,053
Delivered: 1983
Builder: Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co
Operator: UECC

Owner: Wallenius Lines Singapore
Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
Flag: SGP
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 3100
Capacity car/trucks: 1530/260
Length (m): 164
Beam (m): 28
Draft (m): 8.4
Deadweight (m/t): 12,562
Gross tonnage: 27,876
Main engine/Power (kW): 8,053
Delivered: 1983
Builder: Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co
Operator: UECC

  • Owner: Wallenius Lines
  • Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
  • Flag: SNG
  • Ship Type: PCTC
  • Capacity car (RT43): 4,900
  • Capacity car/trucks: 2,890/350
  • Length (m): 195.5
  • Beam (m): 28.8
  • Draft (m): 9
  • Deadweight (m/t): 17,176
  • Gross tonnage: 42,110
  • Main engine/Power (kW): 9.1
  • Delivered: 1986
  • Recycled: Green recycling in 2010
  • Builder: Shin Kurihama Dockyard Co, Japan
  • Charter: Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics

Owner: Rederi AB Soya, Stockholm
Flag: SWE
Ship Type: Motor RoRo Car Container Carrier
Capacity car/trucks: 614 cars + 2,139 TEUs or 1,697 cars + 1,410 TEUs
Length (m): 250
Beam (m): 32.3
Deadweight (m/t): 37,000
Gross tonnage: 25,360
Delivered: May 1984
Sold: 1989
Builder: Kockums AB, Malmö

Owner: Wallenius Lines Singapore
Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
Flag: SGP
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 3200
Capacity car/trucks: 1530/260
Length (m): 164
Beam (m): 28
Draft (m): 8.4
Deadweight (m/t): 11,818
Gross tonnage: 28,116
Main engine/Power (kW): 8,053
Delivered: 1983
Builder: Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co
Operator: UECC

Owner: Wallenius Lines
Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
Flag: SNG
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 5,300
Capacity car/trucks: 2,380/500
Length (m): 198.0
Beam (m): 32.3
Draft (m): 11.6
Deadweight (m/t): 28,566
Gross tonnage: 50,681
Main engine/Power (kW): 13.5
Delivered: March 1982
Sold: 2010 to EUKOR (renamed Morning Cedar)
Builder: Kockums, Malmö, Sweden
Sister ships: Figaro (3), Madame Butterfly (3), Medea (2)

Owner: Wallenius Lines
Management: Wallenius Marine
Flag: SWE
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 5400
Capacity car/trucks: 2570/500
Length (m): 199
Beam (m): 32.3
Draft (m): 11.7
Deadweight (m/t): 28,529
Gross tonnage: 51,858
Main engine/Power (kW): 12,488
Delivered: 1985
Builder: Hitatchi Zosen, Japan
Operator: WWL

Owner: ARC
Flag: USA
Capacity car (RT43): 5600
Capacity car/trucks: 2 400/480
Beam (m): 32.3
Draft (m): 11.6
Deadweight (m/t): 28509
Main engine/Power (kW): 12.5
Delivered: 1985
Sold: 2003
Builder: Hitatchi Zosen-Hiroshima Works, Innoshima, Japan

  • Owner: ARC
  • Flag: USA
  • Ship Type: PCTC
  • Capacity car (RT43): 5,600
  • Capacity car/trucks: 2,200/510
  • Beam (m): 32.3
  • Draft (m): 8.9
  • Deadweight (m/t): 15,681
  • Main engine/Power (kW): 8.7
  • Delivered: 1987
  • Purchased: 1994
  • Sold: 2003
  • Builder: Sumotomi Oshima, Japan
  • Former name: Skaukar

In 1994 Wallenius Lines purchases MS SKAUKAR together with NAL, a Norwegian shipping company. The vessel was previously on charter to Wallenius and is renamed MS FIDELIO.

•Owner: Wallenius Lines
• Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
• Flag: SNG
• Ship Type: PCTC
• Capacity car (RT43): 5,300
• Capacity car/trucks: 2,380/500
• Length (m): 198
• Beam (m): 32.3
• Draft (m): 11.6
• Deadweight (m/t): 28,676
• Gross tonnage: 50,681
• Main engine/Power (kW): 13.5
• Delivered: October 1981
• Sold: 2010 to EUKOR (and renamed Morning Spruce)
• Builder: Kockums, Malmö, Sweden
• Sister ships: Carmen (2), Madame Butterfly (3), Medea (2

Owner: Wallenius Lines
Management: Wallenius Marine
Flag: SWE
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 5300
Capacity car/trucks: 2420/500
Length (m): 198
Beam (m): 32.3
Draft (m): 11.6
Deadweight (m/t): 28,396
Gross tonnage: 51,071
Main engine/Power (kW): 13,500
Delivered: 1985
Builder: Kockums
Operator: WWL

• Owner: Wallenius Lines (Japan) Ltd, Tokyo
• Flag: Japanese
• Ship type: Motor Pure Car Truck Carrier
• Capacity car/trucks: 2,900 cars, or 2,500 cars + 130 trucks.
• Beam (m): 27.6
• Length: 165
• Deadweight (m/t): 11,038
• Gross tonnage: 15,647
• Built: December 1978
• Purchased: November 1983
• Renamed: PARSIFAL (2) 1983
• Builder: Kurushima Dock Co Ltd, Onishi, Japan

• Owner: Wallenius Lines
• Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
• Flag: SNG
• Ship Type: PCTC
• Capacity car (RT43): 5,300
• Capacity car/trucks: 2,380/500
• Length (m): 198
• Beam (m): 32.3
• Draft (m): 11.6
• Deadweight (m/t): 28,689
• Gross tonnage: 50,681
• Main engine/Power (kW): 13,500
• Delivered: 1981
• Recycled: Green recycling in China 2014
• Builder: Kockums, Malmö, Sweden

Owner: Wallenius Lines
Management: Wallenius Marine
Flag: SWE
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 5300
Capacity car/trucks: 2380/500
Length (m): 198
Beam (m): 32.3
Draft (m): 11.6
Deadweight (m/t): 28,566
Gross tonnage: 50,681
Main engine/Power (kW): 13,500
Delivered: 1982
Builder: Kockums
Operator: WWL

• Owner: Wallenius Lines
• Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
• Flag: SNG
• Ship Type: PCTC
• Capacity car (RT43): 5700
• Capacity car/trucks: 3 490/360
• Length (m): 195.6
• Beam (m): 31.7
• Draft (m): 9.2
• Deadweight (m/t): 15406
• Gross tonnage: 43487
• Main engine/Power (kW): 15,300
• Built: July 1978
• Purchased: 1983
• Recycled: Green recycling in China 2010
• Builder: Nippon Kokan K.K., Tsu, Japan
• Charter: Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics
• Former name: Avesta, Aniara (2)
• Sister ship: Tosca (4)

• Owner: Wallenius Lines (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore
• Flag: SGP
• Ship Type: Motor Pure Car Carrier
• Capacity car/trucks: 4,400
• Length (m): 197.1
• Beam (m): 28.1
• Deadweight (m/t): 15,249
• Gross tonnage: 12,138
• Built: December 1974
• Purchased: December 1983
• Converted: 1984
• Sold: 1993
• Builder: Kurushima Dock Co Ltd, Onishi
• Former name: ex Univenture No. 1

• Owner: Wallenius Lines (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore
• Flag: SNG
• Ship type: Steam Turbine Tanker
• Length (m): 317
• Beam (m): 50
• Deadweight (m/t): 232,750
• Gross tonnage: 122,267
• Built: September 1967
• Purchased: July 1084
• Builder: Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Ind. (IHI), Yokohama, Japan

• Owner: Wallenius Lines
• Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
• Flag: SNG
• Ship Type: PCTC
• Capacity car (RT43): 4,900
• Capacity car/trucks: 2,890/350
• Length (m): 195.5
• Beam (m): 28.8
• Draft (m): 9
• Deadweight (m/t): 17,271
• Gross tonnage: 42105
• Main engine/Power (kW): 9.1
• Delivered: 1986
• Recycled: Greed recycling in China 2010
• Builder: Shinn Kurihama Dock Co Ltd, Japan
• Charter: Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics

Owner: Wallenius Lines
Management: Wallenius Marine Singapore
Flag: SWE
Ship Type: PCTC
Capacity car (RT43): 5300
Capacity car/trucks: 2420/500
Length (m): 198
Beam (m): 32.3
Draft (m): 11.6
Deadweight (m/t): 28,536
Gross tonnage: 51,071
Main engine/Power (kW): 13,500
Delivered: 1985
Recycled: Green recycling in China 2015
Builder: Kockums, Malmö, Sweden
Charter: Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics

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