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Alliances look to north-south trades, including those to Latin America
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THE world's largest container shipping alliances are weighing up the pros and cons of widening their joint service networks to capture the secondary north-south trades, including those serving Latin America, in a bid to maximise the efficiency of cooperation agreements.
Owner of consultancy CK Americas Michael Kristiansen told delegates at the TOC America Container Supply Chain event in Panama: "I think the global alliances are coming here - whether it is little by little or very fast, I think it is inevitable."
According to an AJOT report, Cosco Container Lines vice president Howard Finkel confirmed that the Ocean Alliance that unites Evergreen, CMA CGM and OOCL has agreed to consider "extending the geographic scope of the Ocean Alliance beyond the east-west trade, and especially in the north-south trades as that is increasingly becoming a focus of Cosco's."
However, most of the Latin America trades are served by vessel sharing arrangements that cross the boundaries of the deepsea alliance memberships.
For example, four services between Asia and the east coast of South America see Maersk cooperating with THE Alliance and Ocean Alliances along with PIL, HMM and ZIM on the ESA service, while the ASAS service sees the same shipping lines sharing slots barring Yang Ming, according to Brazilian liner consultancy Datamar.
Maersk Line and MSC cooperate with Hapag-Lloyd on the IPANEMA service, and on the SINO service Cosco co-loads with PIL.
However, Datamar managing director Andrew Lorimer questioned whether the 2M, Ocean and THE alliances would actually be permitted to formally enter the Latin American trades: "On the east coast of South America there is no real alliance alignment and there seems to be antitrust concerns which may prevent that alignment from happening."
Mr Finkel said Cosco was planning to launch a South America-North America service even if it could not be done in association with its Ocean Alliance partners.
"We have lagged in this part of the world because it is a difficult market and not particularly profitable but with the purchase of OOCL we have become a truly global carrier.
"So we will launch a new north-south service here and we will try to do it responsibly - we do not want to go into the Latin America market and cause havoc; we are too big to do that but you will see a tremendous increase in our presence here."
Owner of consultancy CK Americas Michael Kristiansen told delegates at the TOC America Container Supply Chain event in Panama: "I think the global alliances are coming here - whether it is little by little or very fast, I think it is inevitable."
According to an AJOT report, Cosco Container Lines vice president Howard Finkel confirmed that the Ocean Alliance that unites Evergreen, CMA CGM and OOCL has agreed to consider "extending the geographic scope of the Ocean Alliance beyond the east-west trade, and especially in the north-south trades as that is increasingly becoming a focus of Cosco's."
However, most of the Latin America trades are served by vessel sharing arrangements that cross the boundaries of the deepsea alliance memberships.
For example, four services between Asia and the east coast of South America see Maersk cooperating with THE Alliance and Ocean Alliances along with PIL, HMM and ZIM on the ESA service, while the ASAS service sees the same shipping lines sharing slots barring Yang Ming, according to Brazilian liner consultancy Datamar.
Maersk Line and MSC cooperate with Hapag-Lloyd on the IPANEMA service, and on the SINO service Cosco co-loads with PIL.
However, Datamar managing director Andrew Lorimer questioned whether the 2M, Ocean and THE alliances would actually be permitted to formally enter the Latin American trades: "On the east coast of South America there is no real alliance alignment and there seems to be antitrust concerns which may prevent that alignment from happening."
Mr Finkel said Cosco was planning to launch a South America-North America service even if it could not be done in association with its Ocean Alliance partners.
"We have lagged in this part of the world because it is a difficult market and not particularly profitable but with the purchase of OOCL we have become a truly global carrier.
"So we will launch a new north-south service here and we will try to do it responsibly - we do not want to go into the Latin America market and cause havoc; we are too big to do that but you will see a tremendous increase in our presence here."