the alliance Ocean Three di CMA CGM, CSCL and UASC is ready to start the operating activity on end 2014



Been shipwrecked the project to constitute the shipowning alliance P3 Network with the first two companies of navigation of the field of line, Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company, because of the joined failure last june from the authority Chinese antitrust ( on 17 June 2014), while Maersk and MSC try to propose the alliance to two 2M, the third company of the original project and the market of the line transport, the French CMA CGM, has announced today to have signed three relative agreements of cooperation to the marine routes East-West with the Chinese Lowers Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and with the Middle Eastern United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), respective seventh and nineteenth company of the segment of the marine transport of line for ability to the fleets.

The new alliance is christened Ocean Three and is based on a combination of agreements of vessel sharing, slot exchange and relative slots charter to the Asia-Europe services, the Asia-Mediterranean, to the transpacifici services and ocean-going liners and the Asia services - east coast of the USA.

CMA CGM has specified that, included those used in the within of the agreements of Ocean Three with CSCL and UASC, will employ on the routes East-West a fleet of 159 ships for a containerized cargo ability total pairs to 1,5 million teu that 93 ports will climb. The French company has specified that 45% of this fleet will be constituted by ships operated from CMA CGM.

On the routes Europe Asia-North, on which 65 portacontenitori for an ability to about 800 thousand teu are previewed four services weeklies magazine that will be used they will touch 32 ports and that - has specified the French company - the two services of CMA CGM will complete current offering six departures to the week.

On the Asia-Mediterranean relation 42 ships for an ability to about 300 thousand will be employed teu and will be carried out four services weeklies magazine with 32 ports of port of call, of which two services for the Mediterranean, one for the Adriatic and one for the Black Sea. In particular, service MEX 1 will be dedicated to Spain and France and will scale Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Chiwan, Port Kelang, Malta, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseilles Fos, Malta, Salalah, Port Kelang, Xiamen, Shanghai. Service MEX 3 will be dedicated to Italy and will carry out touched to Qingdao, Pusan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Port Kelang, Port Saïd, La Spezia, Genoa, Marseilles Fos, Barcelona, Valencia, Port Saïd, Jeddah, Khor Fakkan, Port Kelang, Qingdao. Service PHOEX will connect Asia with the adriatic ports of Rijeka, Koper, Venice and Trieste having carried out ports of call to Shanghai, Pusan, Ningbo, Chiwan, Port Kelang, Malta, Rijeka, Venice, Trieste, Koper, Port Saïd, Port Kelang, Shanghai. Service BEX, dedicated to Turkey and the Black Sea, will scale the ports of Dalian, Tianjinxingang, Kwangyang, Pusan, Shanghai, Ningbo, Chiwan, Port Kelang, Beirut, Pireo, Izmit, Istanbul Ambarli, Constanta, Odessa, Ilichevsk, Istanbul Ambarli, Pireo, Port Saïd, Port Kelang, Dalian.

In the Pacific the net of CMA CGM with Ocean Three will offer to four services weeklies magazine for California and a service for the north-western region of the America North. On the route that connects Asia with the coast oriental of the United States will be realized a service through the Suez Canal and a service dedicated to the Gulf of Mexico. With such servizii altogether CMA CGM will propose four spins weeklies magazine between Asia and Nord America with the employment of 52 ships for an ability to about 400 thousand teu and 29 ports of port of call.

CMA CGM has specified that the relative agreements to the routes ocean-going liners will be finalized soon.

According to the forecasts, the new net of services East-West di Ocean Three will be activated in the end of this year.