Cargo owners\u2019 need to plan Asia-Europe shipments for next year was behind Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd discarding the Suez Canal as an option when their new Gemini Cooperation network launches on Feb. 1 next year.<\/p>\n
In the clearest signal yet that the carriers do not anticipate a return to Red Sea transits next year, and with shippers already preparing their 2025 contracts, Gemini decided to jettison the shorter route from its network and commit to the longer transit around southern Africa.<\/p>\n
When the Suez routings are deemed safe from Houthi rebel attacks, the shift by ocean carriers will bring \u2018havoc\u2019 to container shipping schedules, said Maersk CCO Karsten Kildahl. Until then, Maersk customers needed lead time certainty so they can plan operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nightmare operation when the canal closed is nothing compared to what it is going to look like when it opens again,\u201d Kildahl told reporters Wednesday at the naming ceremony of the dual-fuel Alexandra Maersk in Felixstowe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will have several weeks of something that will look like an operational meltdown. It is not going to be smooth.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Gemini unveiled its updated network in September, the alliance offered Asia-Europe shippers alternative routings via the Cape of Good Hope and the Suez Canal. However, Maersk told customers in an advisory this week that the Red Sea situation remained \u201chighly dynamic\u201d and that Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd would only return to the route \u201cwhen it is safe to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201dThe reality is that there are still attacks in the Red Sea and it is unsafe to be there. We have seen in the past that it looked safe, and carriers tried to go through, but it wasn\u2019t safe and had to be undone again. You can\u2019t just flip flop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Details please refer to JOC news.<\/em><\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Knowler, G. (2024, October 10). Maersk rules out Suez Canal routings for Gemini Launch<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/maersk-rules-out-suez-canal-routings-for-gemini-launch-5746470<\/p>\n Cargo owners\u2019 need to plan Asia-Europe shipments for next year was behind Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd discarding the Suez Canal as an option when their new Gemini Cooperation network launches on Feb. 1 next year. In the clearest signal yet that the carriers do not anticipate a return to Red Sea transits next year, and with …<\/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-3103","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\/3103","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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}