News / Shipping partners abandon plans for P3 as China blocks what it saw as 'a merger'

17/06/2014

Just one day less than a year after Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM announced the formation of the P3 Network, the plans of the world’s three largest carriers are in ruins after China’s Ministry of Commerce today announced it would not approve the proposal.

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Ricky Forman
June 17, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Is it really much of a surprise that China has rejected the P3? With their national interests at heart and the fact that COSCO and CSCL are in a dire financial position, it was always unlikely that China would give the green light. How much time and resource has been wasted by the top 3 as a result of this failed alliance? It will now be harder for unit costs to be lowered, and as a result carriers may look to increase rates as their alternative strategy…..

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