"K" Linens, MOL and NYK begins the year on April 1°, 2018 preparing itself for the fusion in the segment of the programmed container in order



The three main Japanese shipowning societies agree: 2016 have been a gruesome year for the shipping. In the beginning message year turned to the dependent, today the managing director of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Junichiro Ikeda, has remembered that in the 2016 tinning question and lasting of the excess of hold offer they have maintained the market of the marine transport to the historical minimums. "Developments as the failure of a great company of international navigation - it has specified Ikeda referring to the Hanjin Shipping South Korean - has accelerated the process of riallineamento and consolidation of the field".

"Meantime - it has observed the president of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Tadaaki Naito - the field of international the marine transport has recorded a contraction because of the slow down of the economic increase in China, while the impact of the race to the construction of new ships has prolongedded as a result of the policies of slackening in monetary field".

It is Ikeda that Naito, so as the president and managing director of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Linens), Eizo Murakami - they have listed the various measures in order to answer to the serious weakening of the market of the shipping that they are assumed by the respective companies and, between these, the more important: "on 31 October last year - Murakami has remembered - we have taken an absolutely meaningful decision having decided of scorporare from our activity primary our division in the field of the container that, for all and the three main Japanese companies of navigation, always has turned out to be Core business, and our foreign terminalistiche activities and to reorganize them in a joint venture new managed from the three societies". The intention of the three Japanese companies is to activate joint venture operatingly on April 1°, 2018 ( on 31 October 2016).

"Our new strategy for the future in the field of the portacontainer - it has specified Murakami - will be the following one: to fight to weapons pairs with the competitors foreign countries that economies of scale pursue introducing competitiveness in the costs generated from the arranged dimension of our fleets and of our systems with the commercial competitiveness that everyone of we has developed over the years. It is a strategy - it has observed the president and CEO of "K" Linens - that demands a perspective to mean and long term shared from all and the three societies. From this integration a model of business in a position to generating profits will be born also when the conditions of the market are very bad so as they are time it".

Ikeda, Naito and Murakami have evidenced that the segment of the containerized marine transport will continue however to being Core business of the respective companies.