TSA and WTSA towards the fusion



The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) has introduced to the American Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) the demand for being able to widen the perimeter of the shipowning alliance, up to now limited to the companies of navigation that transport goods containerized from Asia to the ports of the USA, to the entire transpacifica marine spin including therefore also the relation westbound from the USA ports to the Asian ports.

TSA has specified that, once obtained the authorization, the activities of the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (WTSA would be suspended), alliance centralized on transpacifiche marine shipments from the USA to Asia and that is formed by the companies that constitute the TSA. They take part of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA), in fact, the companies APL, CMA CGM, Lowers Shipping, COSCO Container Lines (COSCON), Evergreen Line Hanjin Shipping, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Linens), Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Linens), Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL), Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation and Zim. The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement is constituted by companies COSCON, HMM, Evergreen Line, "K" Linens, Hanjin Shipping, Hapag-Lloyd, OOCL and Yang Ming.

TSA, that it has introduced such proposal of variation of the scope of the alliance for a period of test of 24 months, subject therefore to review to the term of the period, has explained that the initiative is time to a rationalization of the agreements between the companies that operate in the transpacifico market and to a cost reduction. The maintenance of agreements separated between the carriers, everyone with own reunions, the support of staff dedicated by the carriers, with specific requirement of adhesion and a cargo of administrative - it has emphasized the administrator of the TSA, Brian Conrad - is time less justifiable that in the past, above all in consideration of lasting of the phase of contraction of the volumes of transactions that characterizes the last years.

Finding that in all the main world-wide marine routes the agreements between shipowners are representatives from a single organism to which is under responsibility the entire marine spin of the service, Conrad has found that the same companies that transport goods in both the directions on the same ships, that they are employed in the complete spin of their services, since their activity operates on the base of a complete spin, has sense to take in consideration the two segment of the travels of round-trip of the spin as an entire service integrated regulated therefore on the base of agreements realized within a single organism.