\n\tBeijing: Two of China’s leading shipping lines, COSCO Container Lines (COSCON) and Sinotrans&CSC, have announced plans to cooperate on China-Japan container routes, in a further sign of state-run maritime conglomerates being forced from on high to work together during the downturn.<\/p>\n
\n\tFrom late February, the two subsidiaries of COSCON and Sinotrans&CSC, Shanghai PanAsia Shipping and Sinotrans Container Lines, will jointly operate the routes from north and east China to Japan in an effort to consolidate the two companies’ resources.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe news follows on from last autumn’s announcement that COSCON and China Shipping Container Lines would collaborate for the first time on a number of domestic routes. [11\/01\/13]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beijing: Two of China’s leading shipping lines, COSCO Container Lines (COSCON) and Sinotrans&CSC, have announced plans to cooperate on China-Japan container routes, in a further sign of state-run maritime conglomerates being forced from on high to work together during the downturn. From late February, the two subsidiaries of COSCON and Sinotrans&CSC, Shanghai PanAsia Shipping and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ml_titleColor":"#000000","_ml_titleFont":"Roboto","_ml_titleFontSize":1.136,"_ml_titleFontWeight":"400","_ml_titleLineHeight":1.3,"_ml_metaColor":"#708090","_ml_metaFont":"Montserrat","_ml_metaFontSize":0.6785,"_ml_metaFontWeight":"400","_ml_metaLineHeight":0.92,"_ml_bodyColor":"#a9a9a9","_ml_bodyFont":"Open Sans","_ml_bodyFontSize":0.85,"_ml_bodyFontWeight":"400","_ml_bodyLineHeight":1.2,"_ml_wooPriceColor":"#666","_ml_wooPriceFont":"Open Sans","_ml_wooPriceFontSize":0.9,"_ml_wooPriceFontWeight":"400","_ml_wooPriceLineHeight":1.27,"_ml_headingColor":"#000","_ml_headingFont":"Merriweather","_ml_headingFontSize":2.02,"_ml_headingFontWeight":"700","_ml_headingLineHeight":1.47,"_mlglobal_userfontcolors":{"headingColorUser":[],"titleColorUser":[],"metaColorUser":[],"bodyColorUser":[],"wooPriceColorUser":[]},"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n