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the American Federal Maritime Commission decides to deepen the examination on the P3 Network
Demands will come additional information to Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM
December 6, 2013
The American Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has decided to demand to the parts additional information on the proposal of constitution of the new shipowning alliance P3 Network introduced to the American authority from the companies Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM, that they are the three carriers world leaders of the segment of the containerized marine transport ( on 18 June 2013). The Vessel Sharing Agreement proposed from Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM, than the three companies they intend to activate operatingly in the course of according to trimester of 2014, would have had to take effect next Sunday already. The FMC however has specified that once that the parts will have introduced the demanded documentation will begin a new period of examination of the proposal of the duration of 45 days.
The FMC will make official the demand for additional information with a communication that will be emitted the next week and contextually it will announce also the start of an ulterior period of 15 days of public consultation in the course of which the parts interested will be able to send ulterior comments about the proposal of agreement between the three carriers.
Explaining because the Federal Maritime Commission has decided to demand additional information on the proposal of constitution of the new shipowning alliance, the commissioner of the FMC Richard A. Lidinsky, that it has voted in favor of the demand, it has emphasized that it is essential that the Commission "takes the necessary time and places absolute attention in examining to bottom this agreement. This agreement - it has specified - seems to go towards a phase of implementation without care about an adapted authorization". According to Lidinsky, the demand for additional information by the Commission will assure that the worries expressed from loaders and interested parts are estimated by the FMC. The commissioner of the FMC William P. Doyle, also it espressosi in favor of the demand for new information, has been said trusting "that the parts of the P3 will face all approfonditamente the issues raised from the Commission".
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