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CP Ships to double frequency of Asia-Australia service
GATWICK, UK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CP Ships Limited today
announced that one year after launching fortnightly service between Asia and
Australia, it plans to double the frequency to weekly through a vessel sharing
agreement with Yantai Marine (SYMS).
"The agreement with Yantai Marine enables us to build on the success of our
first Asia-Australia service efficiently, without adding additional tonnage of
our own," commented Juan Manuel Gonzalez, Executive Vice President.
Start-up of the joint service is expected in early August with CP Ships and
Yantai Marine each contributing two 1700 teu ships. The port rotation will be
Chiwan, Hong Kong, Ningbo, Shanghai, Sydney, Brisbane with connections to CP
Ships networks in Asia.
At 11 days, the transit time between Shanghai and Sydney will be one of the
fastest available.
CP Ships began its first Asia-Australia service in July 2004 under the Lykes
Lines brand. The service will continue to operate as Lykes Lines until CP Ships
adopts a single brand and begins offering service under the CP Ships name.
The vessel sharing agreement is subject to regulatory review.
ABOUT CP SHIPS: One of the world's leading container shipping companies, CP
Ships provides international container transportation services in four key
regional markets: TransAtlantic, Australasia, Latin America and Asia. Within
these markets CP Ships operates 39 services in 22 trade lanes, most of which
are served by two or more of its seven brands: ANZDL, Canada Maritime, Cast,
Contship Containerlines, Italia Line, Lykes Lines and TMM Lines. On 28th April
2005, CP Ships announced it will re-brand its services under the CP Ships name
and retire these brands by the end of 2005. At 31st March 2005, CP Ships'
vessel fleet was 81 ships and its container fleet 454,000 teu. Volume in 2004
was 2.3 million teu, more than 80% of which was North American exports or
imports. CP Ships also owns Montreal Gateway Terminals, which operates one of
the largest marine container terminal facilities in Canada. CP Ships' is listed
on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol TEU and also in
the S&P/TSX 60 Index of top Canadian publicly listed companies. For further
information visit the CP Ships website, http://www.cpships.com/.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains certain forward-
looking information and statements within the meaning of the United States
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating, but not limited to,
operations, anticipated or prospective financial performance, results of
operations, business prospects and strategies of CP Ships. Forward-looking
information typically contains statements with words such as "consider",
"anticipate", "believe", "expect", "plan", "intend", "likely" or similar words
suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook on future changes
in volumes, freight rates, costs, achievable cost savings, the estimated
amounts and timing of capital expenditures, anticipated future debt levels and
incentive fees or revenue, or other expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives,
assumptions, intentions or statements about future events or performance.
Readers should be aware that these statements are subject to known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those suggested by the forward- looking statements.
Although CP Ships believes it has reasonable basis for making the forecasts or
projections included in this press release, readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on such forward-looking information. By its nature, the
forward-looking information of CP Ships involves numerous assumptions, inherent
risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, that contribute to the
possibility that the predictions, forecast and other forward- looking
statements will not occur. These factors include, but are not limited to,
changes in business strategies; general global, political and economic and
business conditions, including the length and severity of any economic slowdown
in the countries and regions where CP Ships operates, including seasonality,
particularly in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australasia, Asia and
Europe; the effects of competition and pricing pressures; changes in freight
rates; industry over-capacity; changes in demand for container shipping;
availability and cost of chartered ships; changes in laws and regulations,
including tax, environmental, employment, competition, anti-terrorism and trade
laws; difficulties in achieving cost savings; currency exposures and exchange
rate fluctuations, fuel price and interest rate fluctuations; changes in access
to capital markets and other sources of financing; various events which could
disrupt operations, including war, acts of terrorism, severe weather conditions
and external labour unrest, all of which may be beyond CP Ships' insurance
coverage; compliance with security measures by governmental and industry trade
practice groups; the outcome of civil litigation related to CP Ships'
restatement of financial results and the impact of any resulting legal
judgments, settlements and expenses; and CP Ships' anticipation of and success
in managing the risks associated with the foregoing.
The above list of important factors affecting forward-looking information is
not exhaustive, and reference should be made to the other risks discussed in CP
Ships' filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the US
Securities and Exchange Commission. CP Ships undertakes no obligation, except
as required by law, to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward- looking
information, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, or the above list of factors affecting this information.
DATASOURCE: CP Ships
CONTACT: Investors: Jeremy Lee, VP Investor Relations & Public Affairs,
Telephone: (514) 934-5254; Media: Elizabeth Canna, VP Group Communications,
Telephone: +44 (0)1293 861 921 or +41 (0)79 691 3764