The French CMA CGM has anticipated what will be the number of ships and the number of scheduled services that will be offered by the next month from the Ocean Alliance, the vessel sharing agreement agreement that sees the transalpine shipping company alongside of China's COSCO Shipping Lines and OOCL and Taiwan's Evergreen, carriers that in recent days have renewed their An operating agreement extending it until 31 March 2032 ( of 27 February 2024).

From next month, the four containerized shipping carriers will employ 321 in the Ocean Alliance service network container with a total hold capacity of approximately 4.5 million TEUs compared to about 352 ships for a capacity of of 4.43 million TEUs planned for the period April 2022 - March 2023. A reduction in the number of services is planned which in the next programming will be 35 compared to the previous ones 41.

In particular, the French company specified that, so As with the current programming, the next network of services Ocean Alliance's scheduled route will include six routes between the Far Reaches of the East and Northern Europe, as well as will remain unchanged the number of four services between the Far East and the Mediterranean. Transpacific services will drop from 21 to 20, of which 12 between Asia and Canada's U.S. West Coast and eight between Asia and the East Coast of the United States. There will also be a decrease in the transatlantic services that will increase from three to two, and services between Asia and the Persian Gulf, which will be three instead of four. In addition, in view of the effects on maritime traffic of the geopolitical crisis in the Red Sea region, which has forced most ocean carriers - including those of Ocean Alliance - to divert ships on the route around Cape Buona Hope, in the next programming Ocean Alliance has suspended until further notice, the two services between the Far East and the Red Sea.