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Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd - Gemini rising in western co-operation

German container carrier Hapag-Lloyd is set to leave THE Alliance in January 2025 and join a new alliance with Maersk Line, called the Gemini Cooperation to be launched in February next year.

Nick Savvides, Europe correspondent

January 17, 2024

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Maersk and MSC had already announced the dissolution of their 2M alliance last year.

Gemini will consist of an initial 290 vessels, totalling 3.4 million teu, 60% of these ships will be deployed by the Danes with the remainder coming from Hapag-Lloyd.

Both carriers pride themselves on their high-quality services, reputations which have suffered through the pandemic era, but the carriers are targeting schedule reliability of over 90% allied with improved transit times.

A joint statement by the carriers said: “During 2024, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will carefully plan the transition from their current alliances to the new operational cooperation. Concurrently, service to customers will continue along existing agreements.”

The lines expect to release further details of the alliance throughout this year as vessel schedules and service offerings are developed.

Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc said that Hapag-Lloyd is “the ideal ocean partner” for its strategic journey, “By entering this co-operation, we will be offering our customers a flexible ocean network that will be raising the bar for reliability in the industry.”

Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO at Hapag-Lloyd also believes that the new alliance will be able to offer a high-quality service, but he also emphasises the importance of the green agenda as a differentiation.

Related:Maersk and MSC’s dissolution of 2M shifts up another gear

“We will benefit from efficiency gains in our operations and joint efforts to further accelerate the decarbonisation of our industry,” he said.

 

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About the Author

Nick Savvides

Europe correspondent

Experienced journalist working online, in monthly magazines and daily news coverage. Nick Savvides began his journalistic career working as a freelance from his flat in central London, and has since worked in Athens, while also writing for some major publications including The Observer, The European, Daily Express and Thomson Reuters. 

Most recently Nick joined The Loadstar as the publication’s news editor to develop the profile of the publication, increase its readership and to build a team that will market, sell and report on supply chain issues and container shipping news. 

This was a similar brief to his time at ci-online, the online publication for Containerisation International and Container News. During his time at ci-online Nich developed a team of freelancers and full-time employees increasing its readership substantially. He then moved to International Freighting Weekly, a sister publication, IFW also focused on container shipping, rail and trucking and ports. Both publications were published by Informa. 

Following his spell at Informa Nick joined Reed’s chemical reporting team, ICIS, as the chemical tanker reporter. While at ICIS he also reported on the chemical industry and spent some time on the oil & gas desk. 

Nick has also worked for a time at Lloyd’s Register, which has an energy division, and his role was writing their technical magazine, before again becoming a journalist at The Naval Architect for the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. After eight successful years at RINA, he joined Fairplay, which published a fortnightly magazine and daily news on the website.

Nick's time at Fairplay saw him win the Seahorse Club Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year 2018 awards.

After Fairplay closed, Nick joined an online US start-up called FreightWaves. 

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