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Monday, 22 September 2014 15:30 |

FRANCE : 2014 HARVEST

The 2014 grape harvests are now fully underway in the middle of September. After 2 years of low yield harvests due to fluctuating weather conditions (violent thunderstorms, a cold and wet spring), weather conditions have been more favorable in 2014.

A harvest considered as average in quantity and good for quality.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the French wine-making sector have forecast a 2014 harvest of 45.4 million hectoliters, an increase of 7% compared to 2013 (42.3 million hectoliters) and close to the average over the last five years (45.6 million hectoliters over the period 2009-2013).

2M : Maersk and MSC cooperation

Maersk and MSC have filed their intended Vessel Sharing Agreement – 2M - with the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). Unless the FMC has questions or objections, as from October 11th, the two carriers can go ahead with their collaboration.

Maersk

Monday, 01 September 2014 11:16 |

US West Coast : tentative agreement between PMA and ILWU

On August 26, 2014 the ILWU and the PMA announced that they have reached a tentative agreement on terms for health benefits subject to agreement on the other issues in the negotiations.

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Transportation insurance

Shipping containers through oceans has been a success over the decades. It’s so efficient that we forget the natural environment can be really tough and damageable. Fortunately incidents occur very rarely but when it occurs it can be severe like the MSC ZOE vessel in North Europe or the HAPAG-LLOYD YANTIAN EXPRESS on route to Canada. Despite they are very large container ship, till the water or weather conditions can be severe as you can read in the here joined article.

We keep on inviting you to cover your shipments with a transportation insurance. TRANSO’s one is particularly fitted for wine shipments from door to door (not only seaborne). We highly recommend you to confirm its use for each and every container you place with TRANSO.

Anyhow, we thank you for 2018 support, wishing you the best for 2019, at least a safe year.

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The container lines recent history

The shipping industry has been moving on with further concentration as here below reminded.

However, 2018 has recorded even lower scores in terms of schedule reliablity. Not only vessels are getting later but when they are late, the delay is further than the years before. With very slim global profit (when positive) carriers are reluctant to increase vessel speed for schedules recovering. Other reasons come from more and more port congestions at loading/discharge and the truck driver’s shortages in USA and also at countries of origin. Improvments would be expected and welcome but the recent performances do not support positive changes.

More than ever you can rely on TRANSO team and services to assist you for monitoring as accurately as possible the supply chain of your wine imports.

2014: Hapag-Lloyd integrated with CSAV

2015: Cosco merged with China Shipping

2016: CMA-CGM acquired APL

2017: Hapag-Lloyd integrated UASC

2017: Maersk acquired Hamburg Süd

2018: Cosco acquires OOCL

2018: ONE as a merge of K Line, MOL & NYK

Change in MED services

Both Ocean Alliance and THE Alliance services from MED to US East are merging into one single service as from early December.

The 2 existing services are deploying 4500 TEU vessels. The new one will deploy 8500 TEU vessels. The total capacity is slightly lower.

However in case of delays or blank sailings, alternative are very limited ; for instance, from FOS, there is no direct sailing alternative (only via Algeciras with Maersk or Valencia with MSC).

Carriers are announcing this is to recover from low freight rates and improve the service reliability as we have all noted less accuracy and more lead times in worldwide shipments.

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