page_title: Trans-Asia Shipping Lines
section_title: Current fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Trans-Asia Shipping Lines / Current fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: Trans-Asia ship — MV Trans-Asia 3
context_page_description: Trans-Asia Shipping Lines, Incorporated is a shipping company based in Cebu City, Philippines. It was incorporated on March 25, 1974 under the name of Solar Shipping Lines, Inc. The Chairman of the company is Dennis A. Uy. Trans-Asia Shipping Lines is now managed by the Chelsea Logistics, Corp.
  The company took steps towards cargo modernization in 2013, by acquiring almost 8,000 square meters of property within Cebu Pier area, and upgrading operations to include 10-footer container vans while maintaining loose and palletized / break bulk operations to cater to clients' varying needs. By 2015, the company started offering 20-foot container van service for Cebu to Cagayan and Cagayan to Cebu route.
  In 2016, the company expanded cargo operations to Manila, with a freighter vessel offering Less Container Cargo and Full Container Load cargo service. Barely 6 months of serving Cebu to Manila and Manila to Cebu route, we now include 40-footer container service.
  In December 2016, Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corporation purchased the entire outstanding shares of stocks of Trans-Asia Shipping Lines, Inc. including its four subsidiaries.
context_section_description: TASLI operates 9 passenger-cargo vessels and 6 cargo vessels. Its latest vessel is Warrior Spirit, renamed as Trans-Asia 1, which was acquired in late 2016 and to serves the Cebu-Cagayan-Cebu route. In December 2016, West Ocean 11 arrived in the Philippines and is scheduled to be delivered to TASLI after completion of its dry-docking in mid- 2017.
caption: The Trans-Asia 3 in Cebu Port
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