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To May the net of containerized services of 2M (the Maersk and MSC will be restructured)
Confirmed the touched ones to the Italian ports of Genoa, Gioia Tauro, La Spezia and Trieste on the Asia-Mediterranean route
March 19, 2018
The next May will be put into effect a reorganization of the containerized marine services between Asia and the Mediterranean Europe North/that are operated by the Danish company Maersk Line and the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in the called within of the vessel sharing agreement 2M.
The two companies have announced today specifying that the changes will allow to offer an improvement of the services and to increase the reliability of the schedule, on which - it has specified the Danish company - have among other things an impact negative the congestion of the ports and the meteorological conditions. Specifying that such situation has involved in the past the necessity to cancel of the already programmed ports of call, in charge of the services with Europe of the Maersk Line, Johan Sigsgaard, it has evidenced that such variations of the programming determine an interruption in the flow of the goods and affect the logistic chains of the customers.
Sigsgaard has explained that the reorganization of the services that will be put into effect at the beginning of May has the scope to reduce the necessity to cancel ports of call to the ports and that such objective will be achieved reducing the number of double ports of call to a same port and expanding to the span of time on hand for shipments and taken in delivery in the ports the hub.
Maersk Line has specified that the new Network of marine lines Asia - North Mediterranean Europe/will touch 17 ports in less regarding the current programming.
In the new configuration of the net of services of the 2M, relatively to the Asia-Mediterranean connections the touched ones to the Italian ports of Genoa, Gioia Tauro are confirmed, La Spezia and Trieste. In particular, the port of Genoa will be scaled by the called service Dragon from MSC and AE20 from Maersk, the ports of Gioia Tauro and of La Spezia from the services Dragon/AE20 and Jade/AE11 and the port of Trieste it will be touched two times from the Phoenix/AE12 service.
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The next May will be put into effect a reorganization of the containerized marine services between Asia and the Mediterranean Europe North/that are operated by the Danish company Maersk Line and the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in the called within of the vessel sharing agreement 2M.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
