Busan Ho Chi Minh Jakarta
Intra-Asia Container Shipping

Connecting Asia's Ports —
One Voyage at a Time

Asia Feeder Lines is a Korean maritime company dedicated to servicing underserved feeder routes across the Asia-Pacific. Where major carriers cannot reach, we do.

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2,100 TEU Charter Rate·$30,100 / day·MSI Dec 2025
Intra-Asia Trade Growth·+6~8% in 2026·VIZION / CTS
Feeder Supply Growth·~3% H1 2026·BIMCO
Aging Feeder Fleet·27% over 20 Years·Clarksons 2026
Focus Region·Vietnam · Indonesia · Bangladesh · Philippines · Myanmar
HQ·Korea·Est. 2026
2,100 TEU Charter Rate·$30,100 / day·MSI Dec 2025
Intra-Asia Trade Growth·+6~8% in 2026·VIZION / CTS
Feeder Supply Growth·~3% H1 2026·BIMCO
Aging Feeder Fleet·27% over 20 Years·Clarksons 2026
Focus Region·Vietnam · Indonesia · Bangladesh · Philippines · Myanmar
HQ·Korea·Est. 2026
Busan Shanghai Haiphong Ho Chi Minh Yangon Chittagong Manila Jakarta
6 Nations
Target Port Markets
Who We Are

A new force in
Asian feeder shipping

Asia Feeder Lines (AFL) is a Korean-based feeder container shipping company, purpose-built to serve the underserved. We connect small and medium-sized ports across the Asia-Pacific region that larger carriers cannot reach economically — and we do it with precision, reliability, and data-driven cost control.

Niche Port Focus
We serve draft-constrained and infrastructure-limited ports in Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Philippines, and Cambodia — where ultra-large vessels simply cannot operate.
Engineering-Driven Operations
Our founding team brings a rare combination of advanced engineering discipline and maritime commercial expertise — enabling data-driven OPEX control and SMC oversight at a granular level.
Government-Backed Framework
AFL operates within a structured financial framework supported by Korean maritime policy institutions, providing institutional-grade credibility and long-term operational stability.
The Opportunity

A market defined by
structural supply shortage

All data drawn from publicly available industry sources. The feeder market fundamentals reflect a multi-year structural imbalance between growing demand and constrained supply.
+6~8%
Intra-Asia container trade growth forecast for 2026, driven by supply chain diversification away from single-origin dependency
VIZION / CTS, Dec 2025
~3%
Feeder fleet supply growth rate (sub-3,000 TEU) for H1 2026 — well below demand growth, supporting a sustained tight market
BIMCO, 2025
27%
Of the current feeder fleet is aged 20 years or older, with 50% expected to be scrapped within 4 years — amplifying supply pressure
Clarksons, 2026
$30,100
Per day time-charter rate for a 2,100 TEU non-eco feeder vessel as of December 2025 — reflecting the tightest feeder market in years
MSI, Dec 2025
What We Do

Built for the routes
others ignore

01
Feeder Vessel
Operations
We operate 2,000 TEU class container feeder vessels on Intra-Asia routes, providing reliable, scheduled liner services between key hub ports and secondary destinations across the Asia-Pacific region.
02
Niche Route
Development
AFL specialises in connecting draft-constrained and infrastructure-limited ports that ultra-large carriers cannot serve economically. We design port rotation strategies that unlock previously inaccessible origin and destination markets.
03
Long-Term
Charter Partnership
We build stable, long-term charter relationships with forwarders, NVOCCs, and BCOs seeking consistent feeder capacity on established trade lanes. Our preference is for committed partnerships over spot-market volatility.
Why AFL

The AFL
Advantage

Four principles that define how we operate — and why they translate into better outcomes for every partner.

01
Structural Market Position
We target ports where large-vessel cascading cannot reach — draft constraints, limited terminal infrastructure, and low per-call volumes naturally protect our niche from mega-carrier competition. Our market position is structural, not circumstantial.
02
Engineering-Grade Cost Control
Our founding CTO brings 16 years of advanced industrial systems maintenance and cost engineering from a global semiconductor equipment firm. This discipline is applied directly to vessel OPEX monitoring, SMC billing verification, and drydock management — reducing cost leakage at a granular level that most shipping operators overlook.
03
Institutional-Grade Structure
AFL is established within a Korean government-supported maritime financing framework, providing institutional credibility, regulated oversight, and access to long-term ship financing. This structure aligns the interests of all stakeholders — operators, charterers, and investors — under a transparent governance model.
04
Conservative Financial Foundation
Our financial model is built around a conservative base case that absorbs significant market downside before affecting operations. With the current charter market running well above our internal planning assumptions, AFL has meaningful margin of safety embedded from day one.
Partnership

Work with us

AFL is actively building relationships across the maritime ecosystem. Whether you operate vessels, move cargo, or deploy capital — we have a conversation worth having.

Ship Brokers & S&P
Vessel
Acquisition
AFL is actively seeking 2,000 TEU class container feeder vessels for acquisition. We are buyers with a clear specification, institutional financing in place, and the capability to move quickly on the right tonnage.
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GSA · Forwarders · NVOCCs
Charter
Partnership
We are building charter relationships with forwarders, NVOCCs, and BCOs moving cargo on Intra-Asia lanes — particularly to and from secondary ports in Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Philippines, and Cambodia.
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Financial Investors
Investment
Enquiry
AFL offers a structured, government-framework-supported shipping investment opportunity in a demonstrably undersupplied segment of the Intra-Asia container market. Institutional and private equity enquiries welcome under NDA.
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Contact

Let's start
a conversation.

All enquiries are handled with strict confidentiality. Initial conversations require no commitment — just a shared interest in the Intra-Asia feeder market.

sean@asiafeederlines.com
Headquarters
Seoul / Busan, Korea
Established
2026
Focus Region
Intra-Asia Pacific
Response Time
Within 48 hours