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May 6, 2022
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- The US FMC intimates to maritime carriers
containerized to communicate further commercial data and
Operating
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- 2M, Ocean Alliance and THE Alliance alliances under scrutiny
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- The US federal agency Federal Maritime Commission
(FMC) has imposed on the three main global alliances between companies
containerized shipping to send to government agency
american more information on the rates of their services
liners as well as hold capacity
provision of shippers and freight forwarders. Especially
2M, an alliance formed by the companies Maersk and MSC, Ocean
Alliance, formed by CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen and OOCL, and THE
Alliance, consisting of hapag-lloyd, HMM, ONE and Yang
Ming, will have to provide the FMC with uniform data on the freight rates charged for
the individual routes and by type of container and service that the
The agency's Bureau of Trade Analysis (BTA) will use for
assess the behaviour of companies and competitiveness
of the containerized maritime transport market.
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- If the order to communicate such detailed data shows that the
willingness of the FMC to impose its role as regulator
of the market in order to safeguard competitiveness a
advantage of US trade, from another point of view
Having regard to the request to make known to the Agency more information
detailed commercial and operational activities of
these maritime carriers seem to support the hypothesis that is anything but
peregrina that the previous attempts of the American authority to
assess the competitiveness of the market are broken by
in front of a myriad of non-homogeneous information made of
countless contract freights, spot freight and a multitude of
surcharges and additional rates of different nature that always make
more difficult for customers, but also for the authorities
regulatory, compare the offers of maritime carriers.
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- It is no coincidence, in fact, that the FMC has announced the
decision to require sea carriers to communicate these
information specifying that this has been decided to
following a one-year BTA examination to determine
what data is needed to properly analyze the
behavior of carriers and market trends. And that
despite the fact that the FMC itself admits that "the three alliances of
ocean carriers are already subject to
more frequent and rigorous monitoring than any
type of agreement registered with the Commission. Information
already collected - acknowledged the FMC - include data
detailed operatives, minutes of meetings between managers
of the agreement and regularly scheduled meetings with the parties
of the agreement in which Commission staff shall address the
more crucial issues',
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- With this statement the Federal Maritime Commission seems to
confirm that the substantial data communicated so far by the companies
of navigation to the FMC are not sufficient to assess the status and
the behaviour of the maritime transport market
containerized. Or it seems to support the thesis formulated by
some maritime carrier that requests, especially those more
recently, by the US federal agency, anxious to identify
the culprits of the dysfunctions of the global supply chain and
American, represent a form of unjustified harassment in the
comparisons of shipping companies.
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- B.B.
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