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the companies of the The G6 Alliance widen the scope of the collaboration to the transpacifici traffics
By May Asia and the coast will be offered to six services coordinated between oriental of the America North via Panama hat and Suez
February 5, 2013
To a year from the constitution of the The G6 Alliance, formed from the shipowning companies APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL) in order to coordinate the activities of the respective fleets of portacontainer employees on the routes between Asia and Europe ( on 20 December 2011), the six companies have decided to widen the scope of the collaboration to the transpacifici traffics and, in particular, to the lines between Asia and the coast oriental of the America North realized is through the channel of Panama hat that through the Suez Canal.
On such transpacifiche routes the six companies will employ altogether beyond 50 ships that will touch almost 30 ports in Asia, North America (East Coast), Canada, Central America, Caribbean, Indian, Mediterranean subcontinent and Middle East.
The extension of the cooperation will be put into effect beginning from the next May with the start of six co-ordinate services that will connect the Asian ports with the ports of the North American east coast, of which three realized via the Suez Canal and three via Panama hat.
The six companies have launch a symbolic glove of challenge to the shipowning alliances The New World Alliance and Grand Alliance, always that of I confront competitive can be spoken since the The New Alliance World is constituted by three companies of the G6, that is APL, HMM and MOL, and Grand Alliance is formed by the three other companies of the G6: Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL. The G6 has specified that "the six co-ordinate services will offer a more intense frequency than departures regarding that currently offered from The New World Alliance and put Grand Alliance together" and in fact have explained that "the six spins are the result of the numerous fusion and the review of current services offered independently from the two alliances". G6 has specified that the offered new "includes a new service completely in order to form a total and competitive transpacifico Network".
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To a year from the constitution of the The G6 Alliance, formed from the shipowning companies APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL) in order to coordinate the activities of the respective fleets of portacontainer employees on the routes between Asia and Europe 
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