The CMA CGM Group, the world’s third largest container shipping company, yesterday announced the signature of three major agreements with China Shipping Container Line (CSCL) and United Arab Shipping Company (UASC).
Under the name OCEAN THREE, the agreements involve the following maritime trades: Asia-Europe and Asia-Mediterranean, Transpacific and Asia-United States East Coast.
The agreements (a combination of Vessel Sharing Agreements, Slot Exchange Agreements and Slot Charter Agreements) will complete the CMA CGM offering on the largest global maritime markets:
On the Europe-Asia trade: 4 weekly services, which complete the 2 existing services, thereby offering 6 departures per week
On the Mediterranean-Asia trade: 4 weekly services, 2 to the Mediterranean, 1 to the Adriatic and 1 to the Black Sea the only one on this market
On the Transpacific trade: 4 weekly services to California and 1 service to the Pacific Northwest (United States and Canada)
On the Asia-US East Coast trade: 1 service via the Suez Canal and 1 service dedicated to the Gulf of Mexico.
The agreements on the Transatlantic trade are being finalized and will be announced soon.
These new offerings will combine speed and reliability. Rotations will be optimized with calls in all the biggest Asian, European and North American ports and common feeder ports.
The number of weekly calls proposed and the transit times will be among the best on the market, thereby responding to the expectations of CMA CGM’s clients. Once passenger details are known they will be announced.
For further details of cargo-passenger services offered by CMA CGM, which operates about 85 of its own passenger-carrying container ships, please call Miri Lopusna at The Cruise People Ltd in London on 020 7723 2450 or e-mail cruise@cruisepeople.co.uk.
