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the increase of the ability on the route To make East - programmed Med from 2M and O3 it risks to ripercuotere itself negatively on the hires
It previews Alphaliner specifying that the increase of the ability will be pairs to 14.000 teu to the week
September 23, 2014
According to the society of Alphaliner advising, the new shipowning alliances 2M, constituted from Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), and Ocean Three, formed from CMA CGM, Lowers Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and United Arab Shipping Company (MSC), will introduce ulterior ability pairs to 14.000 teu to the week in the programmed services in order to connect the Far East with the Mediterranean, with an increment of +11% regarding the end of 2013. Based on the data elaborated from Alphaliner, the greater increase of the ability to the fleets of portacontainer will be recorded by the services for the Sea Adriatic and the Black Sea, regions for which the two alliances have previewed the inauguration of new lines.
The society has remembered that the 2M it has planned the realization of five services between Far East and the Mediterranean, in more regarding how much originally previewed, and that the Ocean Three has programmed four on the same route. The nine new spins - it has observed Alphaliner - will replace the seven spins currently operated by the companies that constitute the 2M and the O3.
Alphaliner has found that such increase of the cargo ability, contrarily to wished how much from the shipowning companies, it could overturn the relationship between supply and demand putting to risk the precarious resumption of the level of the hires.
Alphaliner has remembered that in the first seven months of the 2014 containerized volumes transported on the route Far East - Mediterranean they have recorded an increase of +7%, while the medium ability weekly magazine has shown a bending of the -6% because of the suspension to september 2013 of the ninth spin (service ABX) of the G6 alliance and the cancellation of service MD3 of happened alliance CKYH last May.
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