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CMA CGM, COSCON, Evergreen and OOCL constitute alliance OCEAN
The agreement will have initially a duration in April 2017 five-year-old with previewed beginning
April 20, 2016
The companies of navigation CMA CGM, COSCO Container Lines (COSCON), Evergreen Line and Orient Overseas Container Linens (OOCL) have made official today the constitution of the new alliance OCEAN that, putting in field a hold ability pairs to beyond 4,8 million container teu, will be set immediately behind of the alliance 2M constituted in 2014 by the companies of navigation Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), respective first and according to world-wide carrier of the field of the transport of line for ability to the fleet ( on 10 July 2014).
The memorandum of understanding undersigned today from the four companies previews the cooperation for the realization of competitive services on all the main world-wide routes of traffic: Asia-Europe, the Asia-Mediterranean, Red Asia-Sea, Asia-Mean East, east Asia-coast North America and transpacifiche routes and ocean-going liners.
The agreement, that it will have to be authorized from the competent authorities, will have initially a duration in April 2017 five-year-old with previewed beginning.
"The alliance - they have emphasized CMA CGM, COSCON, Evergreen and OOCL - will bring reliability of the service and most effective integration of the ships more recent construction in a fleet of beyond 350 portacontainer". The four shipowning companies have specified that "initially the deployment will cover totally beyond 40 services in great part of connection with Asia, included about 40 services for everyone of the traffics with the USA and Europe".
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