FRENCH container ship owner and operator Compagnie Maritime d'Affretement (CMA) has entered into a slot charter agreement with the three container lines in the Tonnage Sharing Agreement (TSA) on its Joint Overseas Service (JOS) between the Asia and North Europe.
The three lines are Compagnie Generale Maritime Orient (CGM), Nedlloyd Lines (NLL) and Malaysian International Shipping Corp (MISC).
The agreement will be effective from the end of this month, enabling the TSA members to take a pre-determined number of slots on the expanding JOS.
A CMA spokesman said details of slot allocation under the new agreement, and its duration cannot be disclosed at this stage.
''The agreement will operate for a period of several months, however, while these members of the TSA progressively build up operational capacity aimed at reaching their own service objectives during 1995,'' he said.
CMA has four weekly calls at Hong Kong with its Med Club Express (MEX) service and two weekly, fixed-day sailings with JOS.
