Vision and Mission

AFL’s Mission

Our thesis is simple: Build, own, and operate the first fully compliant Jones Act Short Sea/Feedering container liner service in the United States. AFL will build ships based on proven European designs and deploy its vessels into a fully integrated container Short Sea/Feedering operation based on systems now in operation in Europe, Asia and South America.

AFL’s Operational Management Team will be sourced from the pool of professional European managers who are currently running feedering operations and a unique team of American professionals.

AFL’s Vision

AFL is the United States’ first Short Sea/Feeder Shipping liner service with a business model based on successful International Short Sea/Feeder operations in existence today.

AFL will build, own, and operate 100% U.S. built, flagged, and manned Jones Act compliant container vessels.

AFL’s fleet of ships will:

• Introduce and establish the Hub and Spoke container network in the U.S.,
• Be a logical replacement for the existing aging and obsolete Jones Act fleet,
• Facilitate the deployment of the fleet of "Super Ships" now being delivered to the International liner companies along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. In the future, AFL’s feeders will seamlessly distribute large numbers of containers unloaded at one time from the Super Ships that will soon be able make direct Asian/U.S. East/Gulf coast calls via the widened Panama canal, and
• offer a "green" coastal seaborne transportation solution to U.S. importers and exporters who rely on the international container liner system to move their goods around the world.