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2011
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J-WeSco purchases Westwood Shipping Lines.
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2010
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Westwood begins service from Portland to Japan.
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2009
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Westwood begins regular monthly service to China.
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2007
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Westwood and Star Shipping’s space-sharing and sailing agreement ends. Westwood
charters three replacement vessels.
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2005
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Westwood and Star Shipping initiate a space-sharing and sailing agreement.
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2003
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Westwood begins regular service to Hitachinaka, Japan.
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2003-2004
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The Westwood Columbia, Westwood Victoria, and Westwood Olympia
join the Westwood Rainier.
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2000
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Westwood places order for new state-of-the-art vessels.
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1995
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Westwood begins performing all sales and customer services in North America.
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1992
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Westwood celebrates our first decade of transpacific shipping.
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1991
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Westwood begins offering our own weekly eastbound container/breakbulk service when
Gearbulk withdraws from transpacific container shipping.
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1989
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Westwood withdraws from the north Europe market to focus on the strategically important
transpacific market.
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1988
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A joint sailing agreement is launched with Gearbulk Container Services to upgrade
eastbound transpacific service to weekly frequency.
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1986
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Westwood receives the first of five newly built, state-of-the-art "S" ships, the
Westwood Marianne, under long-term contract with Saga Forest Carriers.
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1985
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Transpacific service is upgraded to 10-day eastbound frequency with a Canadian Transport
Company joint sailing agreement.
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1983
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Full-fledged transpacific container/breakbulk service is inaugurated by Westwood
with two "M" ships and two "J" ships.
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1982
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Westwood begins a modest transpacific container operation in a joint venture with
Hoegh.
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1981
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Westwood Shipping Lines commences service with four "M" ships as a container/breakbulk
common carrier between the North American West Coast and north Europe.
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1980
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The Hoegh Mascot briefly strands on a Columbia River shoal caused by mud flow from
the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.
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1979
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Two new "J" ships enter service to carry newsprint from the newly opened Weyerhaeuser/Jujo
NORPAC mill at Longview.
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1977
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New ships enter service; Hoegh Container Lines is formed to provide combination
container/breakbulk cargo service.
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1975
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Weyerhaeuser contracts with Hoegh to build six open-hatch, gantry-crane vessels
(second generation of "M" ships) to carry forest products to Europe.
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1974
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Calmar Line ceases intercoastal service on which Weyerhaeuser was a major shipper.
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1969
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The last two Weyerhaeuser Liberty ships are sold.
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1967
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First set of "M" ships is chartered from Hoegh to carry forest products to Europe
(Weyerhaeuser's first major charter contract for foreign shipping).
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1966
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Weyerhaeuser Line headquarters moves from San Francisco to Tacoma.
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1964
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Ships are chartered to carry finished forest products to Australia (the first Weyerhaeuser
transportation of finished products to a foreign market).
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1963
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Weyerhaeuser begins chartering logships to Japan following the Columbus Day 1962
windstorm, which left an abundance of fallen timber in the Northwest.
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1962
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Weyerhaeuser Line is established after Weyerhaeuser Steamship becomes a division
of Weyerhaeuser Company.
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1961
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Six Liberty ships are rehabilitated in the most extensive Liberty ship reconstruction
to date.
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1950
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Pacific Coast Direct Line is purchased; Weyerhaeuser Steamship moves from Newark
to San Francisco.
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1947
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Four World War II Liberty ships purchased for Weyerhaeuser return to intercoastal
service.
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1942
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The Potlatch and the Heffron are sunk by torpedoes fired from German
submarines.
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1941
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Four ships are diverted on orders of the U.S. government to rush war supplies to
British forces in Egypt; later, all eight of the company's vessels are requisitioned
by the War Shipping Administration.
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1933
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Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company establishes marine operations; headquarters moves
from Tacoma to Newark, New Jersey.
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1923
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Weyerhaeuser's first ocean shipping operation is launched with purchase of two freighters,
the Ponoma and the Hanley, to carry lumber from the Northwest to the
East Coast.
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1900
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Weyerhaeuser Timber Company is established at Tacoma, Washington, after 900,000
acres of Northwest timberlands are purchased.
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1892
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The F. Weyerhaeuser, a 140-foot sternwheeler built for towing logs, is christened
by Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Company (a Midwest Partnership).
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