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Maersk and MSC announce an ulterior restructure of the services of Asia-Europa/Med line
Confirmed the touched ones to Genoa and Trieste. A service, rather than two, to Gioia Tauro and La Spezia
December 19, 2018
The companies of navigation Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that they are partner in the alliance 2M, have announced today variations to the configuration of own services that connect Asia with Mediterranean Europe/, modifications that will be introduced beginning from next March with beginning from the relation westbound.
In the ten services altogether offered six ships will be introduced ulterior, but the ability to hold weekly magazine put in field from Maersk and MSC will not endure variations as the speed of navigation of the portacontainer will be reduced.
Maersk and MSC have explained that the new variations will be introduced in order to ulteriorly increase the reliability of the schedule, diminishing the impact of due delays mainly to the congestion in the ports and the adverse conditions meteomarine.
Regarding the precedence restructure of these routes, put into effect last May(on 19 March 2018), and relatively to the ports of call in Italy of the connections between Asia and the Mediterranean, the ships of the two companies will continue to touch the port of Genoa with the AE20/Dragon service and the port of Trieste (two times) with the AE12/Phoenix service, while the ports of Gioia Tauro and La Spezia will be served by a single line regarding the two precedence, with the calabrian port that will be scaled by the AE11/Jade service and from Liguria port from the AE20/Dragon service.
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