We're looking strongly at Chile and we're also looking to enhance our service between the Caribbean and South America. The Chilean economy is showing healthy growth, he said.
Brazil is very strong too, although a bit erratic.
APL currently operates on two routes between Asia and South America. It runs a weekly service from Taiwan through Hong Kong and Japan to Panama and on to the US east coast. Panama is the carrier's hub for Latin America, with feeder services to Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Brazil. The carrier's second route is via Mexico, which it serves with a weekly service from north Asia via Los Angeles. Volumes are about evenly divided between the Panama and the Mexican connections, but the latter has a larger share of APL's westbound traffic, Urban said.