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Maersk Line and the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have signed a 10-year vessel-sharing agreement (VSA) on the Asia–Europe, transatlantic and transpacific trades, to be called 2M. The VSA is expected to start early in 2015. However, the exact starting date is conditioned by filing of information to and in some …
Read more – 2M instead of P3After the competition watchdogs in the United States, the cartel investigations group in the EU have now cleared the way for the planned P3 Alliance of Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM.
Read more – EU clears P3From summer 2016 for loaded containers that are transported by sea, weight must be proven.
Read more – Container weight must be proven from 2016Vienna , 17 January 2014 With 4 February 2014 the operator IMS starts a new rail link. From this date a shuttle train between Wolfurt and Rotterdam connects the swiss terminals Frenkendorf (Basel) and Rekingen (Zurich) twice a week, from there, the containers are fed into the existing systems to Rotterdam, Antwerp or …
Read more – IMS launches new train from Wolfurt to RotterdamVienna , 9 January 2014 With a record on transported TEU the 2013 financial year ends for the IMS group. "More than 170,000 TEUs, an increase of 15 % compared to 2012 , represent a consolidated turnover of almost EUR 51 million," says Wolfgang Tomassovich , CEO of IMS ", in a field of intensified competition and weak …
Read more – IMS with record year 2013Vienna, 31. December 2013 To the increased demand on the routes to and from the western ports IMS responds with a recent extension of the branches. After Brussels in May 2013 now a own branch was established in Rotterdam. "As early as the end of October 2013, the new office was registered under the name IMS CARGO …
Read more – IMS opens branch office in RotterdamVienna, 29. November 2013 As part of the internationalization of the IMS Group, numerous new companies were founded throughout Europe in the recent years and successfully established in the market. For the purpose of standardization of the company names we have now also the Austrian company adapted to the already …
Read more – From IMS to IMS, and everything keeps betterWe are glad to inform you, that the new timetable of the “Rhine Shuttle Basel” offers you for your export containers a new departure on Saturday from Frenkendorf CT. The start of this new service will be the 29th November 2013.
Read more – “Rhine Shuttle Basel” - 3rd roundtrip from 29.11.2013Hamburg, 01 November 2013 With 01.11.2013 Mr. Jan Winkler takes over the management of the IMS office in Hamburg. "Mr. Winkler has years of experience in the intermodal area and will ideally complement our team in Hamburg.", Mario Gruber, CSO at IMS, is convinced. Most recently, Jan Winkler was responsible for sales at …
Read more – Jan Winkler nominated as new Branch Manager in HamburgWe are glad to inform you, that we are under the name “Brabo-Shuttle” (Silvius Brabo is according to a legend the hero of the town of Antwerp) able to offer you a further direct service for unaccompanied containers between Switzerland and one of the major ports in the north sea range. The “Brabo-Shuttle” complets our …
Read more – Inauguration of the „Brabo-Shuttle” - Antwerp Zomerweg – Frenkendorf CT