Editing Pacific Forum Line (section)

===Purchase by Samoa===

Heavy losses in 2011 caused several of the owner countries to consider selling their stake in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/207560/queries-over-secrecy-surrounding-planned-sale-of-pacific-shipping-service |title=Queries over secrecy surrounding planned sale of Pacific shipping service |publisher=[[RNZ]] |date=1 October 2012 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/7748121/Secret-sale-of-ship-line-a-threat-to-tiny-nations |title='Secret' sale of ship line a threat to tiny nations |author=Matt Nippert |publisher=Sunday Star-Times |date=30 September 2012 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> Following a bid by Singaporean company Sofrana, the Samoan government bought out the other countries in October 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fijisun.com.fj/2012/10/03/samoa-to-buy-forum-line/ |title=Samoa to buy Forum Line |publisher=Fiji Sun |author=Rachna Lal |date=3 October 2012 |access-date=18 September 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019042944/https://fijisun.com.fj/2012/10/03/samoa-to-buy-forum-line/ |archive-date=19 October 2012 }}</ref> In September 2013 it sold a 50 percent stake in the company to Neptune Pacific Line, a subsidiary of [[The Wonderful Company|Roll Global]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/9157693/Samoa-sells-stake-in-Pacific-shipping-firm |title=Samoa sells stake in Pacific shipping firm |author=Michael Field |publisher=Stuff |date=12 September 2013 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref> The deal required PFL to continue to serve every Forum country except Tuvalu, Niue and the Marshall Islands.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/2013/09/16/samoa-government-sell-50-interest-pacific-forum-line |title=Samoa Government To Sell 50% Interest In Pacific Forum Line |publisher=Pacific Islands Report |date=16 September 2013 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref>

In 2016 the company merged with  Polynesian Shipping Line.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pireport.org/articles/2016/02/03/pacific-forum-line-polynesian-shipping-line-merge |title=Pacific Forum Line, Polynesian Shipping Line Merge |publisher=Pacific Islands Report |date=3 February 2016 |access-date=18 September 2021}}</ref>