Naha International Container Terminal (NICTI) on the island of Okinawa in Japan will be part of a new United States west coast direct service from American President Lines (APL). NICTI is a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, (ICTSI) based in Manila, Philippines.
The service is an all US flag service, which plies the ports of San Pedro and Oakland, California; Duth Harbour, Alaska; Pusan, South Korea; and Yokohama and Naha, in Japan.
APL has deployed five vessels: 'APL Korea', 'APL Thailand', 'APL China', 'APL Philippines' and 'APL Singapore'.
All five vessels, the largest vessels to call at Naha, each have a length of over 274 metres and capacity of almost 5,000TEU.