Effective March 1st 2006, ANL Singapore Pte Ltd is appointing MacAndrews & Co as its new agency representative for the U.K. and Ireland replacing the existing agent, John Good Shipping.

Comments John Lines, Managing Director of ANL: "The decision to appoint MacAndrews is part of a realignment of ANL and CMA CGM Group activities in the U.K. It will create a lot of synergies and allow us to offer an even better service to our clients. We want to thank John Good Shipping for the work that they have done for ANL in the U.K. and Ireland which has laid the foundations for us to grow our presence in these two key markets."

Adds Peter Hill, General Manager Sales and Marketing of MacAndrews agency in the U.K.: "This latest development supplements the presence of MacAndrews' U.K. and Irish agency companies in the inter-continental container trades and strengthens the service portfolio that we offer to U.K. and Irish shippers."

ANL offers a wide range of services between the U.K./Ireland area and the Red Sea, Gulf, India Sub-Continent, North Asia, South East Asia and China; as well as the U.S. East Coast and Australasia.

As part of the change in agency representation, ANL's regional representative office is also relocating to MacAndrews head office in London.

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Notes to editors:

ANL (Singapore) Pte Ltd

ANL Singapore Pte Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of ANL Container Line Pty Ltd, which CMA CGM purchased in 1998 from the Australian Government. In 2002, ANL Singapore entered the Asia/Europe trades, marking ANL's initial expansion into East/West services. Today it operates a broad range of containerised shipping services including on the key East/West routes of Asia/Europe (including Europe/Middle East services), Asia/North America, Asia/Indian sub-Continent and Europe/North America. In addition to the East/West services, ANL Singapore also offers North/South services between Asia and Australia and New Zealand. As a long-standing owner and operator of shipping services in the Australasian region, ANL is a very well-respected name within the international container shipping industry and provides the highest level of personalised quality container shipping services to its customers.

MacAndrews & Co Ltd

MacAndrews & Co is both a container shipping company and a liner agency. In addition to the U.K. and Ireland, MacAndrews has its own agency operations in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands.

As an intra-European regional container shipping line, MacAndrews began to expand from its core European services in 2003 when it started offering a container shipping service between Europe, the Middle East and India / Pakistan buying slots from EPIC. It entered the trade between the Indian sub-continent and North America by joining the Indamex Consortium in 2004 and launched the Swahili Express service in the trade between the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and East Africa at the end of 2004.