With the exit of the German shipping carrier Hapag-Lloyd from the maritime consortium THE Alliance scheduled for the end of next January ( of 17 January 2024), the other shipping companies of the consortium, HMM, ONE and Yang Ming will continue to cooperate within the framework of a new alliance called Premier Alliance which will be in force for five years starting next February. The three carriers announced today that the new cooperation will be carried out on the main maritime traffic routes east-west: Asia - west coast of North America, Asia - coast Eastern North America, Asia - Mediterranean, Asia - Northern Europe and Asia - Middle East.

The new configuration of the 2025 network of scheduled services of the Premier Alliance provides for an increase in port calls with respect to THE Alliance's 2024 programming, with a total of five services landing in Italy next year compared to the previous two. In particular, the routes Asia-Mediterranean planned for 2025 include the calls of three services to the port of Genoa compared to a single call in 2024 and is also confirmed this year the stopover of a service at the port of La Spice. In addition, the new schedule includes the stopover of a service to the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro.

Meanwhile, today the Mediterranean Shipping shipping group Company (MSC), which will dissolve at the end of next January 2M alliance with carrier Maersk Line ( of 25 January 2023), has communicated the structure of its network east-west container shipping services that will become Operational next February after the cessation of vessel sharing agreement with the Danish company.

From next February, MSC will carry out 34 services, of which seven on the Asia - Northern Europe routes, six on the Asia - Mediterranean, four between Asia and the west coast of the North America, you are between Asia and the east coast of North America and 11 services on transatlantic routes. Regarding the first three traffic routes, if the geopolitical situation allows, MSC will offer optional weekly services through the Suez Canal connecting over 1,900 direct port pairs compared to the more than 1,800 pairs of direct ports connected with services that travel the route around the Cape of Good Hope. MSC CEO Soren Toft specified that the Full coverage of all east-west routes will be also achieved through slot exchange agreements with other companies.

MSC's 2025 network of services provides for the calls of 19 services to Italian ports. The largest number of calls, six, will be made at the port of Gioia Tauro, of which two of Asia-Mediterranean services and four of services Transatlantic. This is followed by four services at the port of Genoa, two of which from the Asia-Mediterranean network and two from the transatlantic. Three services will arrive at the port of La Spezia, including one Asia-Mediterranean and two transatlantic liners and three services, all on transatlantic routes, they will also land at the port of Naples. Finally, two transatlantic services will call at the port of Livorno and one Asia-Adriatic service at the port of Trieste.