SOUTH Korea's HMM announced that it will dispatch two more container ships to support South Korean exporters that are struggling to ship out their products to foreign countries amid the protracting Covid-19 pandemic.

The 5,000-TEU container vessel HMM Prestige and the 4,600-TEU HMM Integral will depart from Busan on October 31 for Los Angeles with a schedule to arrive on November 11.

The company said demand for container ships has become tighter recently as the export volume to the United States is rebounding as the US economy starts to recover, according to the The Korea Herald.

It is the third injection of the non-stop container vessels from Busan to LA at the request of Korean exporters, the firm said.

"The company is carefully monitoring the shortage of container vessels," said HMM CEO Bae Jae-hoon. "We will continue providing support for Korean exporters as a major domestic shipping business."