The ambition is to deliver a
flexible and interconnected ocean network with industry-leading schedule
reliability above 90 percent once fully phased in.
Since
the two companies unveiled the new long-term collaboration in January 2024,
they have been working on finalising the details of the operational
collaboration which covers a joint ocean freight network on East-West trades.
With around five months to
launch, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are now ready to share an update covering
finalised service maps and how the network has evolved since the announcement
in January 2024.
Additionally, the companies are also presenting an alternative Cape of Good
Hope network due to the on-going disruptions in the Red Sea.
“Reliability, connectivity and
sustainability are the keywords in the networks we are presenting today, and we
are pleased that we now can give our customers full transparency about how we
will deliver a best-in-class ocean network so they can begin planning despite a
highly dynamic situation,” says Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd.
In October 2024, the Gemini
Cooperation will announce which network it expects to put to sea in February
2025.
“We
are looking forward to the launch of our completely redesigned network next
year, and we are happy to reconfirm that our schedule reliability target
remains unchanged irrespective of which network we will phase in. We believe our collaboration will raise the
bar for reliability to the benefit of our customers and set a new and very high
standard in the industry,” says Vincent Clerc, CEO of Maersk.
Depending
on which network the cooperation will phase in, the new network consists of
either 27 or 29 efficient ocean mainliner services supported by an extensive
network of 30 agile, intraregional shuttle services. The collaboration will comprise of either 300 or 340 vessels