the companies of the shipowning alliance G6 announce a potenziamento of the transpacifici services and ocean-going liners



The six companies of navigation that constitute the shipowning alliance G6, that is APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL), have announced today the next potenziamento of own transpacifici services of line operated on the Asia route - western coast of the America North and own services of line ocean-going liners that connect the America North with the Europe North.

The six companies, that they have decided to increase to the cooperation offering a range wider than services and a greater frequency of the departures, have emphasized that the offered new will be absolutely competitive respect that proposal separately from the others two shipowning alliances constituted ognuna by half of the members of the G6 Alliance, that is the The New Alliance World formed from APL, HMM and MOL and Grand Alliance formed from Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL: on the routes between Asia and West North American Coast, for example - they have specified the companies of the G6 - "every member of the G6 Alliance will be able to offer almost the double quantity of departures regarding how much currently offered separately from the The New Alliance World and Grand Alliance".

"The programmed developments - they have evidenced APL, Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, MOL, NYK and OOCL - will complete our current services on the Asia routes - coast oriental of the North America and Asia - Europe allowing us to more employ the ships adapted for each of the spins of these routes. Graces to a greater flexibility and operating synergies, the G6 Alliance will have more of a net still more solid and efficient offering to the loaders an area of immenser cover and transit Time contained without to reduce the ability total".

The renewal of the Networks of transpacifiche routes and ocean-going liners of the G6, that it will be put into effect beginning from according to trimester of the next year, previews uses it of about 76 ships in the 12 services of line that connect Asia with the coast the west of the America North and about 42 ships in the five services of line ocean-going liners (included two pendulum) that they connect the ports of the East and West Coast the USA, of Canada, Panama hat, of Mexico with Holland, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Germany. Altogether on the routes East-West the G6 Alliance will employ about 240 ships in order to connect 66 ports of Asia, the Americas and Europe.

The companies of the G6 Alliance will continue to commercialize own services independently so as it happens currently.