American FMC asks EU and China to together examine the new shipowning alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM



The P3 alliance Network planned from the first three world-wide companies of navigation of the field of the line transport, that is Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM ( on 18 June 2013), it constitutes a so important and so inusuale concentration, reuniting the interests of three companies to the summit of a single market, than the process of appraisal of the new partnership by the main world-wide authorities of regulation probably it will happen according to exceptional modalities equally. The Maritime president of the American Federal Commission (FMC), Mario Cordero, in fact has asked the colleagues for the authorities for regulation for European Union and Chinese Popular Republic to meet in a summit to Washington in order to examine the P3 alliance and to estimate of together the impact on the market.

Remembering that the three companies have announced the intention to start the collaboration the next year on the routes that connect Asia to Europe, let alone on those transpacifiche and ocean-going liners towards the United States ( on 18 October 2013), through new situated directional offices to London and Singapore and with an organization formed from some 200 people, the Federal Maritime Commission has emphasized that, second the first esteem of the same one of the Maersk Line, the new alliance would control about 42% of the traffic on the Asia-Europe routes, 24% of transpacifico market and 40-42% of the traffic on the routes ocean-going liners.

"One of my worries - the commissioner of the FMC William P. Doyle has declared - is reported to relationships of prints second which a total fleet of 346 ships on the routes East-West will be reduced to 255 ships once that the proposal alliance will become active. I am interested to more knowing some on the impact that such alliance will have on the supplied services the consumers, on the shippers and the terminalistiche operations in the United States. Maersk Line Limited - Doyle has remembered - is the main carrier with USA flag of the international fleet. To such purpose I do not want that the activities of the alliance damage or have an impact negative of any type on the international fleet of American flag when the assumed decisions have the consequence to diminish the number of ships or to withdraw them from the service".

According to the commissioner of the FMC Richard A. Lidinsky, Jr., Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM they would be behaving as if the alliance already were approved of by the regulation authorities: "he is obvious - it has explained - than this alliance, although some presentation of actions near the authorities of regulation in Europe is not carried out, in China or in the United States, it is moving as if already it had obtained the approval from the regulation authorities. To move behind the scenes and to introduce positive news to print - Lidinsky has denounced - do not represent a substitute of a corrected appraisal of the consequences of this consisting concentration of carriers". Lidinsky has announced that which argument of argument to the assembly will propose the P3 alliance anniversary of the European Maritime Law Organisation (EMLO) that next friday to London will hold.

Remembering that the Federal Maritime Commission has the task, on mandate of the Conference, to apply the Shipping Act, president Cordero has found that, "with ours he accredits European and Chinese, we, as regulation authority, we not only have responsibilities relating to our nation, but - given the total nature of the marine transport - to assure that this proposal of alliance does not damage others, included the consumers, the marine community and the world-wide commerce".

"Once that this agreement will be notified - it has concluded Cordero - I imagine that all the members of our American marine industry - intermodal shippers, importers, exporter, consumers, ports, unions, organizations - they will totally express their point of view to the Commission with written observations or public auditions on as this alliance of carriers of foreign flag could influence our commerce by sea".