CMA CGM announces first details of the P3 network
The new P3 network intended to be effective mid-2014; 13 weekly services on the Asia-Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades
CMA CGM announced the much-awaited P3 network details this week. It will provide customers of the French shipping line with the most comprehensive network to be operated on the three main East West Trades. In detail the container shipping alliance between Maersk Line, CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) will offer 13 weekly services on the Asia-Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades, 9 weekly services on the Transpacific trade both towards US West Coast and US East Coast and 5 weekly services on the Transatlantic trades of which three from North Europe and two from the Med.
All these services have been carefully designed to offer high frequency to and from the high-volumes ports, a maximum number of markets covered with direct services including Japan and Sri Lanka in Asia and Sweden and Poland in Europe, a great combination of port pairs with the best transit times in the market together with the best schedule reliability in the market to ensure on-time delivery of goods, CMA CGM notes in its ‘Business News’. The French shipping line will market these services independently and will also deploy its own network of dedicated feeders services to all destinations not served on a direct basis.
Together the world’s three largest container lines on the major east – west trades show impressive numbers. The alliance is set to start out with 2.6m TEU in capacity across 240 vessels on 27 loops with 379 weekly calls in 143 ports of call on three trade lanes – Asia-Europe, transpacific and transatlantic.
On a global level the three lines have a combined 37.1% share of boxship capacity with 6.3 million TEU in a capacity according to figures from analyst Alphaliner, so the alliance will control roughly 41% of this capacity. The alliance will also have the largest boxships in service with Maersk’s 18,000 TEU Triple-E types and CMA CGM 16,020 TEU capacity vessels.
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