Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM will constitute the new P3 alliance Network



According to the opinion of many managers of the field of the marine transport of line, the phenomenon of the concentration in existence in the section has quickly during the last few years an arrest for financial the impossibility to make sure the indispensable support in order to put into effect fusions between great companies. "Not there are the money" have confided to us numerous managing between a series of other more consistent motivations to the policy business.

The most recent and more important project than fusion is that between the Germans Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Süd, that temporary it is set aside in spite of the will of both the companies, of their shareholders (in particular, tourist group TUI, anxious to yield own participation in Hapag-Lloyd) and of the German institutions to reach an agreement ( on 25 March 2013). According to many analysts, the fusion between the sixth and twelfth company of the field for the time being is left unfinished because of a discord on the structure and the conduction of the new society. But some support that only some year it makes the greater facility to retrieve resources financial institutions would quickly have contributed to level these divergences.

If the money lacks and is extremely difficult to put into effect fusions, the determination does not lack but to collaborate tightening operating alliances, as they demonstrate the three main companies of the field, the Danish Maersk Line, the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and the French CMA CGM, than together almost 1,500 portacontenitori ships with an ability to next total hold to 6,4 million container have a fleet teu. Today the three carriers world leaders have announced in fact a partnership operating in the long term called P3 Network to which they will assign to 255 ships for a cargo ability pairs to 2,6 million teu, that they will employ very in 29 services on the main world-wide marine routes: Transpacifiche Asia-Europe and routes and ocean-going liners.

Maersk Line, than currently has a fleet of about 590 ships for an ability pairs to 2,6 million teu, will contribute to 42% about of the ability to the P3 alliance Network assuring therefore stows for 1,1 million container teu. The Danish company will introduce in the new Network also the new ships of Triple class that it has begun to take in delivery ( on 14 June 2013) and that, with an ability to 18.000 teu they are the portacontainer larger of the world. Group MSC, that it has 475 portacontainer for an ability to 2,3 million teu, will contribute to the new Network an ability to hold of 900 thousand teu, pairs to 34% of the total, while the French CMA CGM, equipped of a fleet of 430 portacontainer for 1,5 million teu, will cover having remained 24% with about 600 thousand teu.

According to the forecasts, the P3 Network will become operating in according to trimester of 2014 after stipulates it of definitive agreements by the partner, I attended within the end of this year, and after the obtaining of the necessary authorizations by the authorities antitrust. The portacontainer of the new Network they will be managed independently by a command post kinsman, while the three companies will continue to commercialize the services independently.

Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM have specified that the new services will offer to a greater number of departures weeklies magazine regarding the current individual offer let alone a greater number of ports of call.

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