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Hyundai Merchant Marine will constitute consortium HMM + K2 with the compatriots HA-Linen and Sinokor
Agreement of cooperation for the routes with Japan, China and Southeastern and southwestern Asia
January 3, 2017
The company of South Korean navigation Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), than in recent days has signed an agreement of cooperation with Maersk Line and MSC, the first two world-wide companies of the field of the containerized marine transport, agreement that could lead between three years in the adhesion of the Asian carrier to the alliance 2M constituted by the Danish company and that Helvetian ( on 12 December 2016), a memorandum of understanding with the compatriots Heung-A Shipping (HA-Linen) and Sinokor Merchant Marine with the scope has undersigned today to institute consortium HMM + K2.
The scope of the routes with Japan and China and those with Southeastern and southwestern Asia the ricomprenderà consortium, and in particular the traffics between Korea and Japan, Korea and China and other services in the region. The collaboration will be put into effect through the common management of ships, the exchange and the purchase of slot and investments kinsmen in harbour infrastructures and the purchase of equipments for the containerized transport.
The understanding previews that the next month comes undersigned a formal contract with the objective to establish in business as the consortium next March.
Currently, second the data collected from agency Alphaliner, the fleet of portacontainer of the HMM, that it is constituted by 66 ships, have a ability pairs to 456 thousand teu, while that of the Sinokor is formed by 42 ships of the total cargo ability pairs to 49 thousand teu and that of HA-Linen is formed by 35 ships for an ability total of 39 thousand teu. If the portacontenitori of the Sinokor and HA-Linen are employed mainly on the routes that connect the ports of Korea, Japan, China, Russia oriental and Asian south-east, those of the HMM, as well as in these regions, are used also on the other main world-wide routes of traffic.
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The company of South Korean navigation Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), than in recent days has signed an agreement of cooperation with Maersk Line and MSC, the first two world-wide companies of the field of the containerized marine transport, agreement that could lead between three years in the adhesion of the Asian carrier to the alliance 2M constituted by the Danish company and that Helvetian 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
