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Maersk Line and MSC program 14 ports of call to the Italian ports in the new configuration of the Network 2M
Confirmed the removal of Gioia Tauro from the AE6/Lion service
August 17, 2015
Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), respective before and second company of world-wide navigation of the field of the marine transport of the container, have returned note the new configuration of the line services that the two carriers operate on the routes East-West in the within of the agreement of Vessel Sharing Agreement (VSA) that they have introduced little more than a year it makes ( on 10 July 2014).
The new Network of services realized in collaboration from the two companies has become operating at the beginning of this year ( on 4 December 2014). Today Maersk Line and MSC have communicated a series of variations brought to this net of routes that will be introduced with the scope to maintain to the cover of the ports and the duration of transit Time unchanged, to diminish the potential ill services and to ulteriorly increase the reliability of the schedule. The renewal of the Network, that september with the first departures from Asia will be inaugurated to half, previews the inclusion of three ulterior ports in the net, that is the Israeli port of Haifa, the Canadian port of Prince Rupert and the Turkish port of Asyaport.
In the original configuration of the Network 2M 15 ports of call to Italian ports were included and in the new configuration they figure 14 ports of call in Italy, with an unchanged number of touched to the ports of Genoa (2 ports of call), La Spezia (4), Livorno (1), Naples (2) and Trieste (1), while for the port of Gioia Tauro four have been programmed touched against precedence five as the removal of the calabrian port of call from the spin of called service AE6 from Maersk Line and Lion from MSC is confirmed that connects Asia with the Europe North.
In particular, the port of Genoa will continue to being climbed from called service AE20 from Maersk Line and Dragon from MSC, that it connects Asia with the Mediterranean, and from called service TA5 from Maersk Line and Medusec from MSC, that it connects the Mediterranean with the America North.
The port of will continue to being touched also it from services AE20/Dragon and TA5/Medusec let alone from the called service AE11/Jade, that it connects the Asian ports with those Mediterranean, and from the TA6/Medgulf service, that it connects the Mediterranean with the America North.
The port of Livorno will continue to take part of the spin of called service TA6 from Maersk Line and Medusec from MSC.
Gioia Tauro will continue to being climbed from the services AE20/Dragon, AE11/Jade, TA5/Medusec and TA6/Medgulf.
Also the port of Naples will continue to take part of the spins of the services TA5/Medusec and TA6/Medgulf.
At last to the port of Trieste they will continue the landings place of portacontainer the employees in called service AE12 from Maersk Line and Phoenix from MSC that connects Asia with the Adriatic.
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