The European Shippers' manifest Council worry for the possible effects distorted to you on the market of the alliance between MSC and CMA CGM



The European Shippers' Council (ESC) has manifested worry for the possible dominant action on the market determined from the new agreement between the shipowning groups Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM, that they are respective second and the third world-wide company of the field of the line transport and that they have announced a plan in order to arrange own services on some of the main world-wide marine routes ( on 1° December 2011).

"The fusion of their services on these routes - it has found the president of Maritime the Transport council of the ESC, Jean-Louis Cambon - demonstrates two things: the deficiency of volumes on the market as consequence of the economic crisis and the difficulties to manage the employment of the ships from operated they and, in the second place, than, to the aim to compete directly for the supremacy with Maersk Line, needs to join the forces".

"Considering that the cooperation is of operating nature - it has continued Cambon - the vigilance is necessary in order to guarantee that the understanding continuous to being an operating cooperation and you do not limit the ability beyond how much would be justifiable in the course of period of sparsity of question".

In particular, ESC is worried that the agreement between MSC and CMA CGM can have an impact negative on the competition and determines a reduction of the offer of services: "obviously - Cambon has confirmed - one of the main worries of the loaders will be that of the possible dominant position of the new pact of line transport, that it returns the greater second and third carrier largest of the market. With a competition based on the single market share, today the loaders have of forehead two mega-carriers on some of the more world-wide broken important than traffic. And this must constitute source of worry for loaders that look for a differentiation of services and rates".

Cambon has specified that sussiste also a positive aspect: "this evolution - it has explained - without a doubt is pushed by the necessity to more compete effectively on the market employing the ships adapted for every route".

"Recently - it has concluded Cambon - Maersk Line has revealed plans centralized and developed around the necessities of the customer. Therefore us it would have to be attended that also this new alliance will collect such challenge. As already I have said and I restate, the true success of the service Daily announced Maersk this autumn will come true when the concurrent operators will launch produced similar, confirming emerging of a new market with different groups of services, analogous to how much it has made the industry of the deliveries express. The challenge is there for MSC and CMA CGM, in the present the benefits of their alliance to own customers in terms of reliability and quality of the service".

While Mediterranean Shipping Company has specified the terms of the operating collaboration in the long term tightened with CMA CGM relatively to the routes between Asia and the Europe North. The cooperation - it has explained MSC - will have effect from next March and will involve the modification of the spin of the current services Silk and Lion and the institution of three new spins operated in joint venture with CMA CGM.

The renewed Silk service will be operated by MSC with 11 portacontainer from 14.000 teu that the ports of Dalian will climb, Xingang, Kwang Yang, Pusan, Qingdao, Ningbo, Shanghai, Singapore, Port Kelang, Felixstowe, Zeebrugge, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Southampton, Valencia, Jebel Ali, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dalian. Also the Lion service will be operated by MSC with 11 ships from 14.000 teu that they will touch the ports of Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Chiwan, Yantian, Sines, the Havre, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Felixstowe, Gioia Tauro, Singapore, Chiwan, Xiamen, Ningbo.

In the range of services of group MSC the three following spins will enter moreover:

Swan service:
acts from CMA CGM with 11 portacontainer from 11.400 teu.
Spin: Xingang, Pusan, Qingdao, Shanghai, Xiamen, Singapore, Port Kelang, Tanger Med, the Havre, Amburgo, Bremerhaven, Antwerp, Zeebrugge, Beirut, Jeddah, Port Kelang, Singapore, Xingang.

Service Condor:
acts from MSC with 11 ships from 14.000 teu.
Spin: Ningbo, Shanghai, Nansha, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Yantian, Vung Tau, Southampton, Amburgo, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, the Havre, Malta, Korfakkan, Port Kelang, Singapore, Yantian, Ningbo.

Jade service:
acts jointly from MSC and CMA with nine portacontenitori from 9.500.
Spin: Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Yantian, Singapore, Port Kelang, Gioia Tauro, Malta, Tanger Med, Port Kelang, Singapore, Vung Tau, Shanghai.