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CMA CGM will withdraw five of its six portacontainer of greater ability from the Asia-Europe routes
They will be all introduced in the transpacifico service Pearl River Express
March 4, 2016
The French shipowning group CMA CGM has announced that it will employ all the portacontainer of greater ability to own fleet on the transpacifiche routes that connect Asia with the western coast of the United States. Draft of the six ships CMA CGM Benjiamin Franklin, CMA CGM Bougainville, CMA CGM Georg Forster, CMA CGM Kerguelen, CMA CGM Vasco De Gama and CMA CGM Zheng He that are long almost 400 meters, has a unitary ability pairs to about 18.000 teu and has been all constructed in 2015. Currently five of these units are used on the routes that connect Asia with the Europe North.
Beginning from the end of the next May the five portacontenitori will be introduced in the transpacifico service Pearl River Express, in which already CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is employed. The five ships will come therefore removed from the services French Asia Line (FAL) that they touch the main Asian and nordeuropei ports.
The French company has motivated the decision explaining that up to now that of the transpacifici connections has turned out the more active and dynamic market. The spin of the service Pearl River Express touches the Chinese ports of Fuzhou, Xiamen, Nansha, Hong Kong, Yantian and the American ports of Long Beach and Oakland.
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The French shipowning group CMA CGM has announced that it will employ all the portacontainer of greater ability to own fleet on the transpacifiche routes that connect Asia with the western coast of the United States. Draft of the six ships CMA CGM Benjiamin Franklin, CMA CGM Bougainville, CMA CGM Georg Forster, CMA CGM Kerguelen, CMA CGM Vasco De Gama and CMA CGM Zheng He that are long almost 400 meters, has a unitary ability pairs to about 18.000 teu and has been all constructed in 2015. Currently five of these units are used on the routes that connect Asia with the Europe North.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
