Yang Ming
Yang Ming (legal entity Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation) is a global mainline operator headquartered in Keelung, Taiwan. Founded in 1972, the line has spent 54 years building out its container service network and today operates a fleet of 91 vessels under the SCAC code YMLU. Total operated capacity stands near 720,000 TEU, placing the carrier among the recognised operators on its core trade lanes.
Yang Ming is most active on the following corridors: Transpacific, Asia-Europe, Intra-Asia. Through its membership of the Premier Alliance, the carrier shares vessel capacity with ocean-network-express, HMM on East-West services. Direct customer contact is available via +886 2 2455 5151 or the carrier's web portal at yangming.com.
Yang Ming sample transit times
Indicative point-to-point transit times for services on which Yang Ming appears in rotation. Actual ETAs vary with vessel rotation, port congestion, weather and trans-shipment patterns. We update these figures every quarter against published carrier schedules.
| Origin | Destination | Transit | Frequency | Corridor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai, China | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 32 days | Daily sailings via 7 services | Asia-Europe |
| Qingdao, China | Antwerp, Belgium | 36 days | Weekly | Asia-Europe |
| Ningbo, China | Genoa, Italy | 30 days | Weekly | Asia-Mediterranean |
| Shanghai, China | Los Angeles, USA | 14 days | Daily sailings | Transpacific |
See all 8 corridors served by Yang Ming →
How to track a Yang Ming container
Tracking a Yang Ming container starts with confirming the prefix. Look at the container's left-hand corner casting plate or the painted code on the door — the four-letter ISO 6346 owner code is followed by six numeric digits and a single check digit. Blue Water Facts no longer publishes a per-carrier owner-prefix list (see /accuracy/ for why); confirm the operator via the carrier's own tracking portal or your bill of lading. Visit yangming.com, navigate to the carrier's tracking or "track and trace" portal, and paste the full container number. The portal will return current vessel position, the next scheduled port call, the estimated time of arrival (ETA) and the most recent equipment events such as gate-in, loaded, discharged and gate-out.
If the carrier portal does not return a result, the most likely causes are: the container has not yet been gate-in at the origin terminal, the bill of lading number is in a different format (check whether the system expects an MBL versus an HBL), or the box is moving on a partner alliance vessel rather than a Yang Ming hull. In the last case, the schedule data lives with the operating carrier, not the equipment owner. Yang Ming's customer service can normally cross-reference the booking and route you to the correct alliance partner. Reach the carrier on +886 2 2455 5151 during European business hours.
Related ocean carriers
Operators most often compared with Yang Ming on overlapping trade lanes:
- Ocean Network Express — Singapore, founded 2017. SCAC ONEY.
- Evergreen Marine — Taoyuan, Taiwan, founded 1968. SCAC EGLV.
- HMM — Seoul, South Korea, founded 1976. SCAC HDMU.
- Wan Hai Lines — Taipei, Taiwan, founded 1965. SCAC WHLC.
- Cheng Lie Navigation — Taipei, Taiwan, founded 1996. SCAC CHNL.