ANL TO PARTNER CMA CGM, NORASIA IN ASIA/EUROPE

ANL TO PARTNER CMA CGM, NORASIA IN ASIA/EUROPE    ANL Container Line, the Australian shipping subsidiary of the CMA CGM group, will enter the Asia/Europe trade in June as part of a cooperative agreement with CMA CGM and Norasia.
   ANL currently provides Australia/Asia and intra-Australasia services, and participates in an Australia/Europe/U.S./South Pacific/Australia round-the-world service operated by CMA CGM, Contship Containerlines and Marfret.
   ANL will now take space on the Asia/Europe services of CMA CGM and Norasia, effectively replacing National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia as a partner in the cooperative agreement.
   Having sold its three 4,400-TEU containerships previously employed in the Asia/Europe trade, NSCSA is quitting the trade and ending its involvement in container shipping.
   National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia had about 1,000 TEUs a week in the vessel-sharing agreement.
   Details of how to replace the Saudi Arabian carriers’ vessels in the vessel-sharing agreement are currently being discussed by CMA CGM and its partners, a spokesman for CMA CGM said.
   The CMA CGM group’s decision to market its services under the name ANL in addition to its own reflects a rapidly increasing trend among carriers towards the use of same-group-but-multiple-name marketing in international liner shipping.
   Other liner shipping groups that trade under multiple carrier names include CP Ships, Maersk Sealand/Safmarine, the Hamburg-Sud group, Evergreen/Lloyd Triestino group, Hanjin/Senator Lines and the Compania Sud Americana de Vapores/Norasia/Libra/Montemar group.