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SM Line begins operational cooperation with the 2M alliance
The MSC group introduces programs to adapt its business to the health emergency situation
April 6, 2020
The Maersk Algol is one of six 11,500 teu ships used by Maersk and MSC in the trans-Pacific service called by the two Orient and TP8 companies respectively that scale the ports In Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Busan, Long Beach and Oakland.
Meanwhile, today the chairman and CEO of the group MSC, Diego Aponte, in an open letter highlighted how it is important that the company, as an essential cog for global trade, together with its customers, the world transport and logistics system is a function despite the difficult operating conditions that -- he specified Aponte - we are all living because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Aponte has announced that for its part the MSC is always implementing new solutions and innovations in order to adapt its activity at the current difficult situation, stating that, for the most part, for example, the company has adopted its new program Suspension of Transit which involves the use of some major global transport hubs such as advanced storage areas for allow shippers to start moving goods to efficient and cost-effective way in anticipation of a recovery in Question. Aponte specified that in Europe, the company is helping shippers use maritime services company's short-sea system to prevent goods from risking be stopped at the borders because of the blocks set up governments to reduce the movement of people people in an effort to contain the spread of contagion Virus.
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