THE RESTRUCTURING OF SHIPPING ALLIANCES FROM FEB 2025
Following to shipping industry lastest update, 10 major global shipping companies will restructuring to 3 New shipping alliance from 1st Feb 2025 as below;
- The 2M alliance terminated. Maersk will collaborate Hapag Lloyd in a new alliance called Gemini.
- Ocean Alliance will continue with the same member companies and services. (CMA- CGM, Cosco, OOCL, Evergreen)
- THE Alliance will have three members in future instead of four (Oneline, Yangming, HMM) following the departure of Hapag Lloyd, new alliance called Premier Alliance.
- MSC will operate alone and share slot with others alliance.
1/ Premier Alliance Services to Europe/MED
The Asia –Europe Trade services via CoGH under Premier Alliance is as below:
- FP1: Singapore – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Le Havre
- FP2: Singapore – Southampton – Antwerp
- FE3: Singapore – Algeciras – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Southampton
- FE4: Cai Mep – Singapore – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Le Havre
- FE5: Singapore – Zeebrugge – Antwerp – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Antwerp – Le Havre – London Gateway
- FE6: Singapore – Le Havre – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp
- MD1: Singapore – Damietta – Piraeus – Istanbul – Izmit – Mersin – Damietta
- MS2: Singapore – Tangier – Valencia – Barcelona – Genoa – Fos
- MD3: Singapore – Abu Qir – Izmit – Istanbul – Tekirdag
- MD4: Singapore – Gioia Tauro – Genoa – La Spezia – Fos – Valencia – Malaga
2/ Ocean Alliance Services to Europe/ MED
The Asia – North Europe Services: 7 services [Cape of Good Hope version]
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Loop 1 [LL1]: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Xiamen – Yantian – Singapore – Felixstowe – Zeebrugge – Gdansk – Wilhelmshaven – Singapore – Yantian – Qingdao.
• Loop 2 [LL2]: Tianjin – Dalian – Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Singapore – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp – Shanghai – Tianjin.
• (New) Loop 3 [LL3]:Shanghai – Xiamen – Hong Kong – Yantian – Cai Mep – Singapore – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Zeebrugge – Felixstowe/London – Port Kelang – Shanghai.
• Loop 4 [LL4]: Pusan – Ningbo – Shanghai – Yantian – Singapore – Tangier – Dunkirk – Southampton –Le Havre – Southampton/Rotterdam/Algeciras – Port Kelang – Pusan.
• Loop 5 [LL5]: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Yantian– Singapore–Le Havre –Rotterdam –Hamburg– Antwerp– Tangier – Port Kelang – Qingdao.
• Loop 6 [LL6]: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Taipei – Yantian – Singapore – Rotterdam – Felixstowe – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Colombo – Port Kelang – Kaohsiung – Qingdao.
• Loop 7 [LL7]: Tianjin – Ningbo – Shanghai – Yantian – Singapore– Antwerp – Hamburg – Rotterdam – Port Kelang – Tianjin.
The Asia – Mediterranean Services: 4 services [Cape of Good Hope version]
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Asia-West Mediterranean 1 [WM1]: Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Kaohsiung – Hong Kong – Yantian – Singapore – Piraeus– Genoa – La Spezia – Fos – Valencia –Singapore – Qingdao.
• Asia-West Mediterranean 2 [WM2]: Qingdao – Pusan – Shanghai – Ningbo – Xiamen – Nansha – Shekou – Singapore – Valencia – Barcelona – Fos – Malta – Port Kelang – Qingdao.
• Asia-East Mediterranean and Black Sea [EM1]: Shanghai – Ningbo – Xiamen – Shekou – Nansha – Singapore –Valencia – Piraeus – Istanbul-Safi – Istanbul-Ambarli – Piraeus – Port Kelang – Shanghai.
• Asia-Adriatic Sea [AAS]: Shanghai – Ningbo – Pusan – Shekou – Singapore – Alexandria – Koper – Trieste – Rijeka – Alexandria – Jeddah – Port Kelang – Shekou – Shanghai.
3/ Gemini Alliance services to Europe/MED
The Asia-Europe services; SE1-SE2-SE3-SE4
The Asia-MED services; NE1-NE2-NE3
4/ MSC services from Asia to Europe
MSC services from Asia to MED
On the others hand, MSC will share slot with Premier alliance to have more services.
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 between Asia and the Mediterranean.
