New consolidation in the field of the line transport: the The G6 Alliance is born



A new grouping of shipowning societies that in recent days operate line services on the route between Asia and Mediterranean Europe/on the falsariga of the analogous tight agreement from the companies MSC and CMA CGM has been formed that in its turn some observatories have interpreted as an answer to the service Daily Maersk activated from the Danish Maersk Line, world leader of the field ( on 1° December 2011). The six societies of the consortia Grand Alliance and The New Alliance World in fact have constituted the The G6 Alliance, new group that between Making East and Europe can put in field a fleet of beyond 90 ships that cover more than 40 ports.

The The G6 Alliance, that the next April will become operating, is formed by the companies of the The New Alliance World, that is APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL), and from those of Grand Alliance, that it is constituted by Hapag-Lloyd (HL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL). The six societies have emphasized today as "this is an historical agreement that remarkablly improves the cover of the service in the Asia-Europe market. We will offer - they have explained - to frequencies of the departures and competitive direct covers that will be respect to every other operator of the market".

From the next spring The G6 Alliance it will operate seven services between Asia and Europe and two services between Asia and the Mediterranean with portacontainer of the ability until 14.000 teu. The nine services - they have evidenced the companies of the new alliance - "will offer more frequent departures, with daily departures from the main Asian, European and Mediterranean ports. The schedule - they have specified - ports of call will include weeklies magazine multiples to Singapore, in southern China, to Rotterdam, Amburgo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Southampton. Moreover the port of call ports will include the Havre, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Thamesport, the ports of the Bohai Bay di Dalian and Xingang, Ningbo, Qingdao, Xiamen, Kaohsiung, Cai Mep, the Japanese ports, Columbus, Gedda and Port Saïd".

The configuration of the nine services of the The G6 Alliance is the following one:

Loop 1
Japan, Hong Kong, Cai Mep, Singapore, Gedda, Rotterdam, Amburgo, Southampton, the Havre, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan
Loop 2
Dalian, Xingang, Pusan, Qingdao, Singapore, Amburgo, Antwerp, Southampton, Salalah, Jebel Ali, Singapore, Pusan, Dalian
Loop 3
Shanghai, Ningbo, South China, Singapore, Tanger Med, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Danzica, Goteborg, Rotterdam, Gedda, Singapore, southern China, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Loop 4
Shanghai, Ningbo, southern China, Singapore, Southampton, Amburgo, Rotterdam, Singapore, southern China, Shanghai
Loop 5
Kwangyang, Pusan, Shanghai, southern China, Singapore, the Havre, Rotterdam, Amburgo, Thamesport, Singapore, Kwangyang
Loop 6
Kaohsiung, Xiamen, southern China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Columbus, Southampton, Amburgo, Rotterdam, Singapore, southern China, Kaohsiung
Loop 7
Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, southern China, Singapore, Salalah, Rotterdam, Amburgo, Southampton, Tanger Med, Port Saïd, Singapore, southern China, Qingdao
Loop 8
Pusan, Shanghai, Ningbo, southern China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Port Klang, Gedda, Damietta, Genoa, Fos Sur Mer, Barcelona, Valencia, Damietta, Gedda, Singapore, Hong Kong
Loop 9
(Asia-Sea Nero): ports of call to define