the Federal Maritime critical Commission the decision of Beijing to prohibit the extension of the P3 at the market Chinese Network



If, as we have written today, the decision of Maersk Line and CMA CGM to introduce from on 1° July rises of the hires for marine shipments from Far East to the Europe North and the Mediterranean can be or less interpreted which retort to the determination of the Chinese authorities to reject the P3 alliance Network that the two shipowning companies have planned with the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), it is difficult instead to consider that the choice inusuale of the Maritime American Federal Commission (FMC) to comment the Chinese provision does not constitute a defense of the plan of devised operating activity concentration from Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM let alone a opened dissaproval of the prohibition tax from Beijing to extend at the market Chinese the shipowning project.

"The alliances of marine carriers for sharing of spaces on the ships - the president of the Federal Maritime Commission has declared, Mario Cordero - anticipate the potential benefit of cost reductions and efficiencies from the environmental point of view that are determined by a co-ordinate employment of newer ships and than greater ability". Words that, evidently, express a full appreciation of the initiative of Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM that however last March the American federal agency had promoted with full marks and that instead the three shipowning companies they have decided to suspend after the failure of Beijing ( on 21 March 2014). "In estimating such agreements - Cordero has still rimarcato - the FMC will continue to estimate such benefits regarding the potential damage deriving from a concentration of decisional powers in terms of cover of the ports, of programming of the services and the necessary ability on the routes".

The Federal Maritime Commission has remembered to have last March established, after a careful review of the impact of the P3 agreement on the transpacifici marine services and ocean-going liners, than in that moment the understanding an excessive increase of the shipping charges would not have determined a reduction of the competition neither or a unreasonable reduction of the transport services and that the parts of the agreement, once that this would have taken effect, would have been subordinates to specific controls periodicals in order to guarantee the respect of the norm Shipping Act. The FMC has specified that own decision remains in vigor in absence of a revocation by the parts of the agreement.