Driven to Deliver

The Yemen Pioneer and Pride were both upgraded with an additional hold and crane, increasing capacity to 10,000 MT

This enhancement demonstrated YGL’s adaptability and commitment to supporting growing trade volumes.

YGL partnered with Jordan National Shipping Line to form Falcon Container Line, enhancing its network and offerings. During this period, YGL also embraced technological advancements by installing a Wang mainframe system for container tracking and accounting.

 YGL expanded its global reach, with the Yemen Pioneer and Yemen Pride operating on a time-charter basis worldwide. Due to the emerging container industry with many new builds and increased capacity by the major carriers impacted the demand for the older YGL vessels leading to the cessation of Falcon Container Line and the selling of the YGL vessels to Chinese interests.

Despite these challenges, YGL remained resilient, forging a strategic alliance with other major carriers in the Red Sea Express Co-operative. Further alliances were forged with DSR and WEC Lines. The WEC line relationship was a large benefit to YGL for restitution of the YGL own containers and the partnership exists today and YGL receives highly competitive rates from WEC for the Red Sea ports.

As the container market grew dominant, YGL evolved from breakbulk shipping to focus on containerized logistics and project cargo ensuring relevance and efficiency in a changing industry.

Gary and Christine joined the team, bringing over 50 years of combined expertise in global logistics including heavy lift, part charters and oversize cargo movements, FMCC, steel, machinery and diverse commodity shipments into challenging locations for which rates are traditionally volatile.

In 2022 to 2023, YGL delivered a complete Waste Heat Recovery Project from India to Aden including heavy lift and oversized shipments and delivered around 3000 TEU globally from 2022 to 2024 has positioned YGL for a new era of growth and innovation.

With YGL’s current network, we can deliver all modes of transport globally and have specific areas of expertise and experience from global origins to the Red Sea and African Ports.