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Maersk Line and CMA CGM will apply a General Rate Increase to shipments from Far East to the North Europe/Med
The tariff increase will take effect on 1° July
June 19, 2014
There is who will consider these tariff increases an answer to the failure of tuesday by the Chinese authorities of the project of shipowning alliance P3 Network proposed from the companies Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM, that they are the first three for cargo ability of the fleet in the segment of the line transport ( on 17 June 2014). There is instead who it will judge this rise of the hires physiological being effect of current state of health of the market. Fact is that the Danish Maersk Line and the French CMA CGM have announced consisting increase of the rates of marine shipments from the Far East towards important markets, first of all Europe.
Maersk Line has communicated among other things the application beginning from the next 1° July of a General Rate Increase (GRI) for the transports from Far East (excluded Japan) to the Europe North of the value respective of 575, 1,150 and 1,150 dollars for container high cube dry reefer from 20 ', 40 ' and 45 '. Moreover from the same date the Danish company will apply a GRI respective of 550, 1,100 and 1,100 dollars for dry container from 20 ', 40 ' and 45 ' sent from the Far East (excluded Japan) to the Mediterranean (excluded Syria).
Also CMA CGM will introduce from on 1° July increases tariff for marine shipments from the Far East to the North Europe/Med. In particular, the General Rate Increase for transport from Far East to the western Mediterranean and oriental, the Adriatic, the Black Sea and the Africa North applied from the French company will be pairs to 550 dollars for container teu from 20 '. Moreover the GRI for shipments from all the Asian ports (included Japan, Asian south-east and Bangladesh) to all the nordeuropei ports (included those of the United Kingdom and the range from Portugal to Russia) will pile also it to 550 dollars/teu.
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There is who will consider these tariff increases an answer to the failure of tuesday by the Chinese authorities of the project of shipowning alliance P3 Network proposed from the companies Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM, that they are the first three for cargo ability of the fleet in the segment of the line transport 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
