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Maersk and MSC sign an agreement of strategic cooperation with ZIM for the routes the Asia-USA East Coast
The three parts will share cargo spaces on the ships employed in five spins
July 19, 2018
The 2M, the alliance based on an agreement of vessel sharing that it is formed by Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the two companies of navigation world leaders of the field of the containerized marine transport, has tightened an understanding of strategic cooperation with Israeli company ZIM relatively to the services between Asia and the coast oriental of the USA, routes on which currently Maersk and MSC operate five spins and ZIM two.
Beginning from the beginning of next september four of these services operated from Maersk and MSC will be arranged with a service realized from the ZIM and the three parts will share cargo spaces on portacontainer the employees in these five spins.
The agreement has an initial duration four-year-old with option in order to be extended the period until to a total seven-year-old.
It is meaningful to evidence as the agreement of Maersk and MSC with the ZIM seems to confirm the difficulties of the partner of the 2M to coordinate their activities with those of the company of South Korean navigation Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) that it in existence has with Maersk and MSC the triennial pact of strategic cooperation called 2M+H that has become operating to April 2017 and that the west regards the traffics east, and in particular the routes Asia-Europe and the Asia-USA East/West Coast.
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The 2M, the alliance based on an agreement of vessel sharing that it is formed by Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the two companies of navigation world leaders of the field of the containerized marine transport, has tightened an understanding of strategic cooperation with Israeli company ZIM relatively to the services between Asia and the coast oriental of the USA, routes on which currently Maersk and MSC operate five spins and ZIM two.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
