Hapag-Lloyd is still sailing in “THE Alliance” with three Asian partners. But bookings in the Gemini Cooperation network with Maersk are already possible.
Gemini – the new two-way alliance between the Hamburg container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd and its Danish colleagues from Maersk – will be launched in February next year. Both are leaving their previous alliances “2M” (Maersk with MSC) and “THE Alliance”, in which Hapag-Lloyd operated together with ONE, HMM and Yang Ming.
Gemini relies on “Hub and Spoke”
With the “hub-and-spoke” concept, the two new alliance partners will concentrate their almost intercontinental services on 12 major ports (hubs), from which a good 30 intra-regional feeder services will depart (spoke).
The cooperation will jointly operate up to 340 ships. The exact figures are still subject to change and depend on how long the crisis in the Red Sea lasts. The aim is to achieve a schedule reliability of over 80% from the start in February 2025. This is far above the previous industry average. “Reliability, connectivity and sustainability are the keywords for us,” says Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd.
Gemini will be accepting bookings from December 3rd.
