Pacific Far East Line

After World War II Pacific Far East Line purchased some of the low-cost surplus ships.

In 1977 The US Maritime Subsidy Board approved the application of Pacific Far East Line, Inc. (PFEL) for being granted a construction-differential subsidy (CDS) for financing the reconstruction of four LASH barge carriers into full container ships at Bethlehem Steel's San Francisco shipyard at a cost of U$5 millions each.

With the Vietnam War over Pacific Far East Line lost revenues and eventually went bankrupt and closed in 1978, all ships being sold or scrapped due to age.

Coastwise Line's main ports included New York City, New Orleans, Galveston, Havana, and others.

Coastwise Line operated the Columbia River service that ran between Portland, Oregon to/from Long Beach, California.

[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Lykes-Coastwise Line was a partnership founded in 1934 in Florida, with routes on the east coast, the agreement ended in 1946.

[13][14] Some ships charted or owned by Pacific Far East Line and Coastwise Line: Two C4-S-1t LASH carrier were built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in San Francisco: The C4-S-1 class, also known as the Mariner class, where the largest of the C4 ships, 37 were built.

[42][43] Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Shipyard constructed two C7-S-88a container ships for Pacific Far East Line (PFEL).

[47] Their service life came in a full circle when Matson, who had initially designed the ships decades earlier, acquired Horizon Lines in 2015.