bongdaso nétNews #79 - Singapore to gain six Asia-North Europe calls in alliance reshuffle

Singapore, bongdaso nét world’s largest transhipment hub, has emerged as one of bongdaso nét clear winners in bongdaso nét forthcoming alliance reshuffle, new analysis from Alphaliner today shows.

With bongdaso nét February deadline for bongdaso nét new alliance structure to begin – with bongdaso nét three main groupings of bongdaso nét Ocean Alliance, bongdaso nét Alliance and 2M partnership scheduled to reform into bongdaso nét Gemini Cooperation, Premier Alliance, standalone MSC and an unchanged Ocean Alliance – analysis of bongdaso nét new port rotations shows Singapore gaining six more port calls from bongdaso nét Asia-North Europe carriers.

In bongdaso nét South-east Asia region, Singapore’s gain is partly Maersk-controlled Tanjung Pelepas’s loss, bongdaso nét Malaysian transhipment hub losing two Asia-North Europe calls.

Of bongdaso nét of bongdaso nét main Asian gateway ports, Vietnam’s Cai Mep gains two calls, Yantian loses three, Ningbo loses one and Shanghai’s call number remains bongdaso nét same.

In North Europe, bongdaso nét Belgian hub of Antwerp – MSC’s regional hub – is bongdaso nét main victim of bongdaso nét reshuffle. It will lose four Asia-North Europe calls with bongdaso nét Gemini Cooperation’s exit from bongdaso nét port to focus hub-and-spoke transhipment operations on Rotterdam and Wilhelmshaven.

Across bongdaso nét trade, Rotterdam’s Asia-North Europe call count will remain bongdaso nét same, Hamburg gains one call, Bremerhaven loses one and bongdaso nét French gateway of Le Havre gains a call.

In bongdaso nét UK, bongdaso nét competition between Felixstowe and London Gateway will see bongdaso nét former gain two calls and bongdaso nét latter lose two, while Premier Alliance calls at Southampton will keep its count bongdaso nét same.

Alphaliner reports: “Felixstowe will attract more business at bongdaso nét expense of London Gateway. bongdaso nét Premier Alliance will continue bongdaso nét two weekly calls at Southampton of bongdaso nét Alliance and no longer use London Gateway.”

For shippers and their freight forwarding partners, bongdaso nét shake-up will prove a net benefit, in terms of choice, bongdaso nét analyst suggests.

“bongdaso nét current five 2M loops, two standalone MSC services and four loops of bongdaso nét Alliance (11 services in total) will be replaced by four loops each for Gemini, MSC and bongdaso nét Premier Alliance – 12 loops in total,” it writes, adding that bongdaso nét seven loops currently operated by Ocean Alliance members CMA CGM, Cosco, Evergreen and OOCL “are expected to remain largely unchanged”.

However, bongdaso nét total port calls across those 12 services cumulatively offered by Gemini, MSC and Premier Alliance will decline, to 132, compared with bongdaso nét 148 currently offered by 2M and bongdaso nét Alliance – again due to bongdaso nét Gemini Cooperation’s hub-and-spoke network.

bongdaso nét Gemini network will see its direct port calls drastically reduced, compared with Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd’s current direct call count.

“Interestingly, bongdaso nét four Gemini loops will have a total of 28 port calls, resulting in a low average of only seven calls per loop. MSC’s four standalone services will serve no fewer than 55 ports (14 per loop), which is almost double compared with Gemini.

“It shows bongdaso nét different strategies of bongdaso nét current partners, with Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd going for above-90% schedule reliability, while MSC prefers to offer its clients a multitude of direct services to smaller destinations,” Alphaliner writes.

Source: https://theloadstar.com/singapore-to-gain-six-asia-north-europe-calls-in-alliance-reshuffle/

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