The structure of the global container shipping alliance next year is set for a further shake-up after MSC unveiled its new standalone east-west service network and revealed it has concluded a vessel-sharing agreement (VSA) with THE Alliance, covering nine Asia-Europe services<\/p>\n
The pivot point is February 2025, when the 2M partnership of MSC and Maersk is set to disband, while at the same time Hapag-Lloyd will depart THE Alliance to form the Gemini Cooperation with Maersk \u2013 at which point, the remaining three THE Alliance carriers \u2013 ONE, Yang Ming and HMM \u2013 will rebrand as the Premier Alliance and enter into a slot-share agreement with MSC covering the Asia-Europe trades.<\/p>\n
In a parallel development, MSC has also signed a three-year VSA with Zim on the transpacific trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very pleased to announce this new strategic partnership with MSC, who is the leading carrier in the Asia-Europe trade,\u201d ONE chief executive Jeremy Nixon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCollectively, the Premier Alliance and MSC, will be able to offer a very capable and extensive network of end-to-end port services to its customers from February 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to this new cooperation with MSC, and both collaborating on our respective joint operational expertise and combined network synergies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, today also saw Israeli carrier ZIM announce that it and MSC had concluded a vessel-sharing agreement on the Asia-North America east coast trade.<\/p>\n
In concert with the agreement, the Premier Alliance carriers published their new network for 2025, and MSC did likewise, including the remaining deepsea trades where it intends to continue as a standalone carrier.<\/p>\n
According to ONE, the Premier Alliance members are set to offer six transpacific services into the US Pacific South-west, and three into the Pacific north-west range, as well as four Asia-North America east coast services.<\/p>\n
In a related development, MSC and Zim have signed a three-year VSA agreement between Asia and the North America east and Gulf coast services, covering MSC\u2019s six services on the trade \u2013 the America\/Z7S, Emerald\/ZXB, Empire\/ZNS, Amberjack\/ZCP, Lone Star\/ZGC, and Pelican\/ZSL, while Zim\u2019s two transpacific express services between China and California will remain independent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis important collaboration reflects ZIM\u2019s commitment to both delivering an outstanding shipping solution to its customers, and taking continuous proactive steps to enhance efficiencies in our network,\u201d Zim president and chief executive Eli Glickman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the direct outcome of our fleet renewal programme which has greatly enhanced Zim\u2019s competitive position, particularly on the Asia to US East Coast trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to, once again, join forces with MSC, an industry leader and Zim\u2019s long-standing trusted partner, to augment our network while upholding our customer-centric approach and commitment to the highest levels of service,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Details please refer to the Loadstar news.<\/em><\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Marle, G. van. (2024, September 9). New strings attached – shipping shapes up for 2025 with Premier Alliance launch<\/i>. The Loadstar. https:\/\/theloadstar.com\/new-strings-attached-shape-up-for-2025-with-premier-alliance-launch\/<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The structure of the global container shipping alliance next year is set for a further shake-up after MSC unveiled its new standalone east-west service network and revealed it has concluded a vessel-sharing agreement (VSA) with THE Alliance, covering nine Asia-Europe services The pivot point is February 2025, when the 2M partnership of MSC and Maersk …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[88,84],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-container-liners","tag-maritime"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}