In 2025, the global ocean shipping alliance landscape will change with new collaborations and the dissolution of others.
Changes to existing alliances
2M Alliance: Maersk and MSC will end their 10-year partnership in January 2025. The 2M Alliance was one of the largest global shipping alliances, covering routes worldwide.
THE Alliance: Hapag-Lloyd will exit THE Alliance.
THE Alliance will have three members in future instead of four, following the departure of Hapag Lloyd, and will be known in future as the Premier Alliance.
GEMIMI - A New collaboration
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd: Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will form a new operational collaboration known.as GEMINI.
Other changes
The Ocean Alliance will publish its updated shipping network for 2025.
Impact
The changes to ocean alliances are due to companies shifting toward independent operations.
More global offering
To measure the effect of this redistribution on ports, we have analysed the services announced so far by the new alliances to find out which ports loose and which gain from February 2025 on. To do this, we have compared the services offered by the 10 shipping companies which make up the three alliances in 2024 with those they plan to provide in 2025. Certainly, MSC is no longer in an alliance, but we have opted to include it in our panorama, given the importance of its presence on the routes we are concerned with. Moreover, MSC and Premier Alliance announced in September that they would be cooperating on Asia-Europe routes.
Overall, the alliances will offer more services from February 2025 on. The different shipping companies have decided to increase the number of joint services they offer, which will increase from 17 to 24 between Asia and Europe and from 9 to 17 - virtually double - between Asia and the Mediterranean. There will be seven additional transpacific services, taking the total to 54. The number of transatlantic services has already increased, even though Premier Alliance members have yet to issue their sailing schedules for this market.
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