Shipping Agencies welcome Mv-Fleet™

Standarization for instructing empty container moves is key for the container industry to cut costs, improve productivity, get advantages from interchange and charter agreements and increase the benefits of being part of carrier alliances. Shipping agencies are becoming aware of that and are seeing in Mv-Fleet a simpler and faster way to make it possible. Broom Group, a shipping agency serving several carriers in South America, took a step ahead and implemented Mv-Fleet this month for its daily equipment operation work-flow.

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Three's a partnership in boxes.

(Source: Fairplay.co.uk - July 2, 2009)

France’s box giant CMA CGM told Fairplay today it is teaming up with Chile’s CSAV and China’s CSCL on some direct shipping routes. The partnership covers Far East/Mexico/Caribbean routes and pulls together valuable experience built up by each company within their respective regions.
The partnership not only enlarges the companies’ coverage but also achieves “operational synergies”, CMA CMG spokesperson Claire Michel told Fairplay today. The companies will now provide a single weekly service, operated by 10 vessels of a capacity of 4,300 teu, replacing the PEX2 and Pacar services. The new service will follow an eastbound route around the world, through the Pacific, then the Panama Canal, the Atlantic, the Cape of Good Hope and the Indian Ocean, before travelling back to Asia. CMA CGM will provide four vessels, CSAV five and CSCL one. The move is partly to create greater efficiency and partly a response to the volatile market, Michel told Fairplay: “We are adjusting our capacity and optimising our costs, which we believe is a pragmatic response to current trading conditions.”
CMA CMG has also announced plans to reduce sailing speed on its flagship Far East/Europe service to as low as 14 knots. This reduction to 'super eco speed' will save on costs and emissions. "Carriers cannot continue burning fuel at today's rate," commented CMA CGM’s senior VP Nicolas Sartini.