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Doyle (FMC): shipowning and great alliances portacontainer are cause of the congestion on the docks of the ports
Problems of increase - it has specified - can be generated from alliances formed from more than two or three companies
April 21, 2015
Some types of alliances between shipowning societies that operate line services are contributing to the congestion that is in existence in the harbour terminals of the western coast of the United States and in general terms also the portacontainer larger, that they take part of such models of shipowning cooperation, contributes to hog the activity of some harbour gateways.
William Doyle has said, commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the federal agency American person in charge of regulating the field of international the marine transport of the USA, taking part friday slid to Athens to the organized spring seminary from the European Maritime Law Organization (EMLO).
"According to my point of view - Doyle has explained - we will be able to experience some problems of increase, not as well as with the alliances constituted from two or three companies, how much with the alliances that include a greater number of companies. The problems - it has clarified the commissioner of the FMC - derive from ships that they do not respect theirs schedule with consequent formation of groupings of ships to the attainment of the disembarkation ports. Once to the terminal, after the other these new larger ships unload the goods submergeeing the terminal".
"Moreover - it has added Doyle - regarding the Asia traffics - West Coast the USA, with the new alliances in many cases the cargo plans of the ships are changed and the cargo of the container in the ports of boarding in some cases happens in disorganized way that it generates confusion to the disembarkation terminal. After the disembarkation the containers are distributed in all the terminals of the western coast and this returns difficult and onerous in terms of time for the truck drivers and the shippers to recover their cargos".
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