JAPANESE shipping giant Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) has announced it will take part in a service connecting Asia to Honolulu starting December 2.

The service is offered through slots on an existing Asia-West Coast South America service operated by "K" Line with MOL and NYK with the following port rotation:Busan, Keelung, Ningbo, Shanghai, Nagoya, Yokohama, Honolulu, Manzanillo, Buenaventura, Guayaquil, Manzanillo, Honolulu, Tokyo and back to Busan.

The service will deploy nine 2,000- to 2,470 TEU ships on a weekly sailing with the first being the 2,468-TEU MOL Satisfaction from Busan on December 2-3, then to Keelung, December, 4-5; Ningbo, December 5-6; Shanghai, December 7-8; Nagoya, December 10-11;
Yokohama, December 11-12 and Honolulu on December 20-21.