Container shipping alliance reshuffle
Container shipping's largest reshuffle in a decade happened over the last weekend as companies jumped ship from existing alliances on the main east-west trades.
That made interesting reading for Davies Turner, with our comprehensive portfolio of international container shipping services for both LCL and FCL import and export cargoes.
Here's how the new alliances now shape up.
THE Alliance is the Premier Alliance, with Ocean Network Express (ONE), HMM and Yang Ming Marine Transportation as partners - MSC helping plug gaps on Asia-Europe trades.
MSC has ditched Maersk in the 2M vessel sharing agreement to largely go it alone.
Hapag-Lloyd has left THE Alliance and joined Maersk in what is called the Gemini Cooperation.
Remaining intact from February 1st is the Ocean Alliance, made up of COSCO, OOCL, CMA CGM and Evergreen.
Ocean Alliance is the one with the largest market share and widest market coverage this year, according to analysis from Linerlytica.
The Gemini partners have been public about their goal of providing 90% schedule reliability in an industry that has struggled to make good on half its promised arrivals. So good luck with that.
For the alliances and their customers - no matter how well-planned out - there will be disruptions. We are talking about hundreds of vessels that need to change their rotations.
There are excellent articles on the Splash 247 and Freightwaves websites about this, which are well worth a visit at the links in the panel below
https://splash247.com/global-liner-alliances-retrench/
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-shippers-should-know-about-ocean-carrier-alliance-changes-in-2025?oly_enc_id=2359H2956723J0G
For more information about Davies Turner’s ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, please contact ocean@daviesturner.co.uk or visit the relevant pages of this website.
Container shipping alliance reshuffle
_325x180.jpg#82;brand;325;180)