Master Line improves Venezuela and Colombia link

  Naviera Master Line de Venezuela has begun a new fortnightly liner service between Port Everglades and Venezuela and Colombia.
  It will operate a combination container roll-on, roll-off ship capable of moving heavy equipment and machinery/rolling stock. The next regular sailing is on April 11.
   Juan Carlos Esquivel, president of Naviera Master Line said the company plans to add a second ship and take delivery of a new order of containers later this spring so that it can offer weekly sailings.
  Based in Miami, Esquivel said his company has offered service on a tramping basis earlier but decided to start a regular liner business.
  “There is a boom of construction building in Venezuela and Colombia,” he said. While the company expects to move a lot of earth moving and construction equipment, he said the firm will move all sorts of general cargo.
  He emphasized his company’s plan to work to support the forwarding community.
   “With over three generations in the shipping industry, we are delighted to start this new service that is guided to support the long time forgotten NVOCC and freight forwarding community that truly makes a difference in all trades and services they provide on the supply chain. Our number one goal is to serve our clients with the most reliable and dependable service they deserve, I’m happy to say that our commercial slogan will always be “Call your cargo agent! or Master Line” just like the old timers and pioneers used to say, remember those days?”
  The cargo will be handled by St. John’s Shipping Company Inc., a stevedore at Port Everglades for more than two decades.
   The company’s ships are self geared and will call the ports of Maracaibo, Guanta, and La Guaira in Venezuela and Cartagena in Colombia.