With the debut of their joint venture ONE, 2018 will become a milestone in the history of the Japanese "K" Linens, MOL and NYK



Sul 2018 will continue to burden the uncertainties and the unknown quantities that last year have characterized international the political scene, but could also in recent months evidence offered opportunities of increase from the gradual improvement of the manifested total economy. This, in synthesis, is the analysis of the current and future political-economic picture in whose context Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" will have to operate the Japanese companies of navigation Linens), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) that it is sketched today by the presidents of the three societies, Eizo Murakami, Junichiro Ikeda and Tadaaki Naito, in the traditional message of beginning year turned to the dependent.

"2017 - Marukami has remembered - American has opened itself with the debut of the new president, an event on which the attention of the world has been concentrated. Supporting a strong principle, that of the America First - it has observed president of "K" Line - president Trump has announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and from the agreement of Paris. In Europe - Marukami has still remembered - the United Kingdom has decided to exit from the European Union and in the elections the government party has lost the majority, while in the electoral consultations in Germany, France and Holland the right parties and anti-UIE are advance. These results - it has found - have demonstrated how much sussista feeling anti-globalisation. How much will develop protectionism - it has evidenced the president of the Japanese shipowning company - is reason of worry for the field of the shipping, than work in the total logistics. Meanwhile the situation in Middle East keeps on the collapse of the radical Islamic State, the repeated provocations by North Korea and other developments are factors that produce geopolitical instability. However, in spite of the uncertain international situation - Marukami has confirmed - the total economy is showing a gradual improvement. The United States, Europe and China are evidencing an acceleration of the increase or the economic resumption. Also in Japan the companies are recording better turned out thanks to the advance of the foreign economies and to a favorable picture for the occupation. With the economic activity that is resuming to total level - it has emphasized Marukami - the rate of growth of the world-wide economy, than in 2016 it came down to the minimal level from the crisis total financial institution, last year it has begun to raise itself and it seems is gaining ground".

If these are some of the main unknown quantities that are profitable difficult to preview which it will be the evolution of world-wide the political-economic scene in 2018, for "K" Linens, MOL and NYK an ulterior reason of uncertainty is constituted by the entrance in programmed activity for the next 1° April of joint venture Ocean Network Express (ONE) that it is constituted last July by the three Japanese societies of navigation and in which they are meeting the their respective activities in the segment of the containerized marine transport, activities that they give the next spring will be operated in the within of the consortium THE Alliance that will put in field a Network of marine routes constituted from 33 services of line ( on 7 July and 18 Decembers 2017).

"I consider - Marukami has asserted referring to the entrance in activity of the ONE - than this new activity will offer the advantages deriving from the scale increase I yield of integration. Moreover I believe that he will bring a greater competitiveness developing the best practical of the three companies and revealing a strong presence in the segment of the portacontainer that is object of continuous changes".

Of the same warning he is the president of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tadaaki Naito, that it has evidenced the hard job currently in course in order to allow the next start of the activity of joint venture, is the president of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Junichiro Ikeda, that it has emphasized as the entrance in activity of lucks ONE will constitute for MOL "a fundamental carried out point of and will mark a new beginning".