About AAL Shipping

Founded in the Netherlands in 1995 and since 2009 headquartered in Singapore, AAL is an award-winning global multipurpose shipping operator that has served the project heavy lift, breakbulk and dry bulk sectors for 25 years.

We offer our customers a unique ‘total’ multipurpose shipping solution, comprising THREE distinct service models: Chartering Solutions deliver tailor-made and competitive chartering options for any cargo type and to any compass point on a spot, or long-term engagement basis. Liner Services provide scheduled and regular sailings that connect the main ports of Asia Pacific and Oceania and Europe across to Asia. Our growing portfolio of Fixed Trade Route Services combine fixed-routes with highly flexible port calls on trades between Asia, Middle East, the Americas and Europe.

About Handsome Express

Handsome Express Co., Ltd. was established in 1979 as a steamship agents under the Class A licence No. 262. We are a middle-sized shipping agency in Taiwan with well-trained and long-experienced staffs in the field of shipping industry. The company has a very good reputation and is in full confidence to promote your business in Taiwan for mutual benefits. Our business concentrates around liner/tramping services, freight forwarding and container leasing for foreign ship owners/operators, container operators and importers/exporters whom have interests in exporting goods to Taiwan and importing goods from Taiwan.

Services

  • Chartering Solutions
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  • Fixed Trade Route Services
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  • Liner Services
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Our Chartering Solutions provide customers with seamless and tailor-made global shipping services, that stretch way beyond existing liner routes. Drawing upon the company’s 20-year expertise in handling and transporting breakbulk and heavylift cargo for some of the world’s biggest and most demanding industry sectors, we ensure maximum safety and optimum efficiency on every sailing.

These services harness AAL’s owned heavy lift, multipurpose vessels and chartered-in external tonnage and undertake voyages to a vast number of ports around the world – transporting high- value cargo for industries including oil & gas, construction, wind energy, agriculture and leisure.

  • Reliable services, connecting key markets, including: Asia-Americas; Asia-Europe; Atlantic
  • Regular and scheduled sailings frequency
  • Highly flexible & tailor-made port calls (POL & POD)
  • Diverse mpp fleet that can safely load and transport any cargo type
  • Trusted, market-leading & award winning carrier

Our Chartering Solutions division operates a growing portfolio of fixed trade route sailings. These unique services provide the assurance of regular monthly sailings on key trades and the convenience of highly flexible port calls (POL & POD) – calling at the ports you want.

AAL operates a regular and dedicated Liner Services division, that connects Asia with Australia (East and West Coast) and Europe with Asia. Currently, our three scheduled liner services are:

  • Asia – East Coast Australia (AUEC Service)
  • North & South East Asia – West Coast Australia Service (AUWC Service)
  • Europe – Middle East/India – Asia Monthly Liner Service

Utilising the market’s youngest and most advanced fleet of heavy lift multipurpose vessels and covering a large number of base ports, AAL can accommodate the transportation demands of a wide range of break bulk, heavy lift and project cargo.

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News

PROJECT CARGO CONFERENCE SINGAPORE, SPONSORED BY AAL SHIPPING
19 Sep, 2023

The programme has been revealed for the inaugural Project Cargo Conference, which is being held on...

International Transport Journalist Awards 2023, Presented by AAL Shipping
13 Sep, 2023

The Seahorse Freight Association Journalist Awards, in partnership with AAL Shipping, recognise and celebrate the...

AAL DELIVERS COMPONENTS FOR USD200M AUS POWER STATION
11 Jul, 2023

AAL Shipping (AAL) recently completed the successful transportation of critical Toshiba-built power station components on...

CRANE OPERATIONS DEMAND HEIGHTENED FLEXIBILITY
28 Jun, 2023

Left photo: 'AAL Melbourne' discharging four second-hand Liebherr cranes. Right photos: ‘AAL Hong Kong', loading three ASCs....

A TIGHT SQUEEZE – JUICE TANKS FROM CHINA TO EUROPE
29 May, 2023

AAL has recently transported eight giant juice tanks safely on a single sailing from Taicang...

AAL RELEASES ‘FIRST LOOK’ SUPER B-CLASS FILM
02 May, 2023

In advance of the launch next year of the first of AAL Shipping’s (AAL) mega...

AAL CHINA CELEBRATES 25-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
15 Mar, 2023

In 2023, AAL Shipping (AAL), a global leader in the multipurpose project heavy lift shipping...

‘AAL LIMASSOL’ TAKES CENTRE STAGE
01 Mar, 2023

Today at the CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard in Guangzhou China, a traditional steel cutting ceremony...

AAL EXPANDS PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
07 Feb, 2023

The 31,000dwt ‘mega-size’ heavy lift vessel, ‘AAL Kobe’, transporting two heavy lift single-point mooring (SPM)...

AAL TRANSPORTS 20,000FRT OF RECLAIMER COMPONENTS
10 Jan, 2023

AAL’s scheduled monthly ‘Asia to Australia West Coast Liner Service’ (AUWC) recently provided the perfect...

THAI & SING ADDED TO AAL’S ‘ASIA TO WC AUS LINER SERVICE’
21 Dec, 2022

Increasing its coverage of key Southeast Asian Markets, AAL Shipping (AAL) is adding Thailand and...

AAL HEADLINES GLOBAL JOURNALIST AWARDS 2022
13 Dec, 2022

AAL was the proud headline sponsor of the world's top transport journalist awards, held in...

AUSTRALIA’S TALLEST TURBINE, CARE OF AAL!
09 Dec, 2022

Renewable energy developer RES Australia has reached a major milestone in the construction of the...

AAL WINS BIG AT AUS SHIPPING AWARDS 2022
18 Nov, 2022

The pair were recognised in the Bulk & Specialised Shipping category for their partnership on...

DISASSEMBLED BERTH OPERATION IN AUS
19 Oct, 2022

AAL Shipping (AAL) successfully collaborated on the disassembly of Berth 2 at Hay Point Coal...

AAL EXPANSION RENDERS 90% FLEET CONTROL
12 Oct, 2022

First photo: 25,800 dwt 'G-Class' vessel.Second photo: 33,000 dwt 'W-Class' vessel. AAL Shipping (AAL) has...

AAL AMERICAS BOOSTS TEAM & LOCAL SERVICE
06 Oct, 2022

AAL is strengthening its Americas division with several appointments to key positions over the past...

AAL CROWNED ‘SHIP OPERATOR OF THE YEAR​​​​ 2022′
23 Sep, 2022

AAL Shipping (AAL) was named the ‘Ship Operator of the Year’ at the annual Heavy...

MERCHANT SHIPPING APPOINTED COMMERCIAL REP INDIA
15 Sep, 2022

AAL Shipping (AAL) has appointed Mumbai-based shipping company, Merchant Shipping Services PVT Ltd., to be...

AAL TRIUMPHS AGAIN AT 2022 AFLAS AWARDS!
13 Sep, 2022

AAL Shipping (AAL), one of the world’s leading global breakbulk and project heavy lift operators,...

AAL LIFTS TWO SUNKEN TUGS IN TASMANIA
23 Aug, 2022

AAL Shipping (AAL) has undertaken a salvage operation to remove two tugs from the Mersey...

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AAL Kobe – Discharging RTGs in Felixstowe

AAL Dalian – Loading Sugar Beet Pulp in Adabiya

AAL Hong Kong – Discharging Wind Cargo in Burnie

AAL Pusan – Loading Modules in Nantong, China

AAL Dalian – Discharging Transformer in Geelong from Shanghai

AAL Brisbane – Loading Pipes in Singapore for Bahrain

AAL Kembla – Loading Mixed Heavy-lift Units including Stator Unit in Shanghai for Cilacap

AAL Bangkok – Discharging Steel Pipes in Darwin from Baoshan

AAL Fremantle – Discharging Railway Equipment in Singapore from Nansha, China

Warnow Mars – Discharging 30 units of Windmill Tower Sections (75t) in San Diego

AAL Dalian – Loading 5 sets of Wind Cargoes in Shanghai and 2 Yachts in Singapore destined for Izmir, Turkey

AAL Shanghai – Loading 2 yachts in Kaohsiung destined for Brisbane

AAL Pusan – Loading 3 Block Units in Zhangzhou, China for Singapore

AAL Kobe – Discharging Windmill Towers in San Diego from Pohang

AAL Singapore – Loading Railway Cars and Windmill Blades in China destined for Australia

AAL Melbourne – Discharging Pontoon ((30.05 x 16.32 x 3.25m, 140t) in Brisbane from Shanghai

AAL Kobe – Discharging Dragline Centre Pintle in Gladstone

10 sets of Windmill Towers Discharging in Longview

AAL Newcastle – Discharging RTGs in Damietta

AAL Shanghai – Loading 2 Transformers (100t & 105t) in Rizhao, destined for Melbourne

AAL Shanghai – Discharging Yacht in Brisbane

Warnow Jupiter – Discharging 9 units of Brewery Tanks (L32.21x W6.38xH6.71m, 57t each) in Altamira, Mexico from Luojing in Shanghai

AAL Brisbane Loading 480t Transformer (12.6×8.1×7.75m) in Yokohama, Japan, destined for Port Kelang, Malaysia

32m Luxury Super-Yacht (105t) discharging in Newcastle, Australia

AAL Newcastle – Loading Liebherr Crane (440MT) in Australia

AAL Hongkong – Discharging Transformer in Townsville, Australia from Shanghai, China

AAL Newcastle – Discharging Rolling Stock in Australia

AAL Singapore – Discharging Passenger Bridges in Miami

AAL Dampier – Loading Autoclaves in Shanghai, destined for Surabaya

Warnow Merkur – Discharging 9 Sets of 135m Towers in Makassar, Indonesia

AAL Newcastle – Discharging 42 Windmill Blades (17.57mt and 58m height) in Galveston, Texas

AAL Melbourne – Discharging 230mt HEX Box and 340mt Recti Box in Point Comfort, Texas

AAL Dalian – Wind Energy – Discharging 51 Giant Windmill Blades in Corpus Christi, USA

AAL Shanghai – Discharging Structural Steel and Gantry Sections in Melbourne

AAL Singapore – Discharging Bridge Leaf, OCD Panels and Accessories at Ogden Point, Victoria BC

AAL Hongkong – Discharging Aeroplane Boarding Bridges in Melbourne

AAL Brisbane – Discharging of RTGs in Veracruz

AAL Singapore – Loading Bridge Leaf and OSD Panels with accessories in Shanghai, Luojing Terminal

Paris Trader – AAL’s W-class Vessel: Loading a Large Cargo of Dismantled Gas Plant Components in Kemaman Port, Malaysia

Warnow Jupiter – AAL’s W-class Vessel: Discharging of Windmill Towers in Tandem Lift

AAL Dampier Delivers 13 Monster Trucks (160mt each) to Nakhodka in Russia

AAL Dampier Loading Giant Haul Trucks in Bunbury Port, AUS

AAL’s 31,000dwt ‘AAL Brisbane’ loading HRSG Modules in Penglai and destined for Sokhna

AAL Fremantle – Discharging Hopper in Townsville, Australia

AAL Dampier – Loading Amine Contactor and Amine Stripper in Shanghai, China

AAL Dampier – Discharging ESP module in Port Pirie, Australia

AAL Dalian – Discharging Yacht in Nanaimo, Canada

AAL Dampier – Loading in Masan

AAL Dampier – Loading Topside Modules Structures in Map Ta Phut, Thailand

AAL Fremantle – Loading Mobile Harbour Cranes in Rostock, Germany

AAL Fremantle – Discharge Mobile Harbour Cranes in Cotonou, Benin

AAL Singapore – Loading Unassembled Shiploader in Shanghai, China

AAL Singapore – Discharge Unassembled Shiploader in Vancouver, Canada

AAL Nanjing – Barangaroo Ferry Hub Terminal Project, Sydney, Australia

AAL Hong Kong – 3rd Loading Automated Stacking Cranes in Shanghai, China

AAL Hong Kong – 3rd Discharge of Automated Stacking Cranes in Melbourne, Australia

AAL Kobe – Discharging Pipe Racks in Guanta

AAL Hong Kong – loading Automated Stacking Cranes in Shanghai, China

AAL Dalian – Discharging Structural Steel in Port Hedland, Australia

AAL Nanjing – Transportation of ACC Unit (410MT) from Changshu to Port Hedland

AAL Hong Kong – Discharge of Buses in Melbourne, Australia

AAL Brisbane – Transportation of Process Modules from Mokpo to Prince Rupert

AAL Hong Kong – Discharge of Reclaimer in Newcastle, Australia

AAL Melbourne – Discharging Steel Structures and Barge in Canada and US

AAL Hong Kong – Discharge of Yachts in Brisbane, Australia

AAL Nanjing – Loading Spur Racks in Yulchon, South Korea

AAL Bangkok – Modules from Sharjah to Kitimat

AAL Dampier – Shiploader from Qidong to Newcastle

AAL Kembla – WTG Sets from Bayuquan to Sagunto

AAL Melbourne – Wind Blades and Towers from Shanghai to Saldanha Bay

AAL Shanghai – Gantry Crane from Shanghai to Vancouver

AAL Hong Kong – Loading Logs in Vancouver

AAL Hongkong – Discharging Structural Steel Cargo in Melbourne

AAL Melbourne – Loaded barges in Shanghai and discharged in Townsville

AAL Delivers for Major Offshore Oil Production Project

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Wind Energy Equipment

Earthmoving Equipment and Rolling Stock

Floating Cargo

Breakbulk and Unitised Cargo

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AAL in 180 Seconds!
AAL Melbourne in Southampton with 38 Yachts on Deck!
AAL Dampier – Loading Petrochemical Plant Components in Pyeongtaek
AAL Shanghai – Discharging Yachts in Brisbane
AAL Kobe – Discharging RTGs in Felixstowe
AAL Delivers TBMs For Major Aussie Metro Projects
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AAL Pusan – Loaded 22 Petrochemical Modules in Nantong, Discharged in Point Comfort and Bayport
AAL Dalian – Discharging Transformer and Other Components in Semarang from Shanghai
AAL delivers tunnel boring machine Kathleen to Sydney in February 2019 – the last of five mega borers for the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project
AAL Kembla – Loading mixed heavy-lift cargo including Stator unit in Shanghai for Cilacap
AAL uses ‘Vaculift’ Technology, in Aussie First
AAL Delivers for Major Offshore Oil Production Project
Warnow Merkur – Loading Oil Rig Components in Tianjin
AAL Energises The Global Wind Energy Sector
AAL and AGL Silverton Wind Farm Project
AAL Singapore – Discharging Passenger Bridges in Miami
AAL Brisbane – Loading 480t Transformer (12.6×8.1×7.75m) in Yokohama, Japan
AAL Kobe – Discharging 3 Yachts (48.5t) in Melbourne from Cape Town
AAL Melbourne – Discharging Windmill Blades in Adelaide
AAL Singapore – Transported Dismantled Dump Trucks (32 BB units, about 1,386mt)
AAL Newcastle – Discharging Windmill Blades in Adelaide
Warnow Merkur – Discharging 9 Sets of Towers in Makassar, Indonesia
AAL Brisbane – Loading Steel Coated Pipes for Santos GLNG Project in Brisbane, Australia
AAL Delivers For LPL & Siemen’s Megaproject 2016/17
AAL Singapore – Discharging Bridge Leaf, OCD Panels and Accessories at Ogden Point, Victoria BC
Warnow Jupiter – AAL’s W-class Vessel: Discharging of Windmill Towers in Tandem Lift
Paris Trader – AAL’s W-class Vessel: Loading a Large Cargo of Dismantled Gas Plant Components in Kemaman Port, Malaysia
AAL Singapore – Loading Bridge Leaf and OSD Panels with accessories in Shanghai, Luojing Terminal
AAL Dampier – Loading a 240mt Haul Truck in Bunbury, Australia
AAL Delivers 13 Monster Trucks (160mt each) to Nakhodka in Russia
AAL’s 31,000dwt ‘AAL Brisbane’ loading HRSG Modules in Penglai and destined for Sokhna
Blue Water Features AAL Services In Corp. Video
EPS Module in Port Pirie
4 ASC units – Victoria International Container Terminal
Convoy – Viterra Ship loader (Interview with Jean Yi, May 2016)
Timelapse Convoy – Viterra, discharge mobile ship loader components (May 2016)
AAL Singapore, loading mobile ship loader components in Shanghai (March 2016)
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AAL Bangkok Carrying Modules
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