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| China extends Maersk's cabotage trial 2 years |
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Date:2025-02-12 Readers:
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CHINA has extended Maersk's cabotage trial for two more years as it experiments with liberalising cabotage rules, the carrier revealed, reported New York's Journal of Commerce.
The pilot scheme has been extended until 2028. The arrangement allows international carriers to transship domestic import and export cargoes at Shanghai's Yangshan deepwater port from selected ports in northern China.
"The benefits for our customers include faster transit times and more efficient supply chain management," said Maersk.
Maersk said Lianyungang, in the northern Jiangsu province, has been added as a designated port as part of the pilot renewal. The port joins the three existing ports - Dalian, Tianjin and Qingdao - that were originally chosen when the scheme was launched in May 2022.
The Transport Ministry has now allowed carriers to be defined as "long-haul" serving intra-Asia routes, chiefly between China and India.
The ministry is also allowing vessel-sharing partners to carry each other's transshipped cargo provided the carriers have received permits from the ministry.
This could open the scheme to Maersk's fellow Gemini Cooperation alliance member Hapag-Lloyd.
Maersk is the only foreign carrier to acknowledge it is taking part in the China cabotage scheme. Hapag-Lloyd declined to comment.
Maersk estimated that import cargoes handled through Shanghai could arrive at the four designated Chinese ports about two days faster compared with being transshipped via South Korea's Busan or Maersk's other hubs.
Maersk said it had handled more than 100,000 TEU since the first inbound consignment was transshipped via Shanghai bound for Tianjin in May 2022.
The latest pilot renewal continues a process to liberalise China's cabotage trade that started more than 12 years ago when foreign-registered ships were allowed to carry containers between Shanghai and other Chinese ports, although they still had to be Chinese-owned.
https://www.shippingazette.com/news?news_id=9250200000301
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