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Gemini Cooperation Weighs Service Options

[ September 10, 2024   //   ]

Container-shipping lines A.P. Moller – Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd AG shared an update on the service map for their Gemini Cooperation, the east-west network due to start operating in February 2025.
The operational collaboration announced in December presented two network options: the Trans-Suez and the Cape of Good Hope, the latter providing an alternative due to ongoing disruptions in the Red Sea.
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 intraregional shuttle services. The collaboration will comprise of either 300 or 340 vessels.
Maersk A/S (Maersk), an entity under A.P. Moller – Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd anticipate providing a schedule reliability of 90 percent once fully phased in.
“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,” said 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,” said Vincent Clerc, CEO of Maersk. “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.”
The Trans-Suez Network would involve about 300 vessels with capacity of 3.4 million 20-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs, across 57 services – 27 mainliners and 30 shuttles (58 services in January with 32 shuttles).
The Cape of Good Hope Network would involve about 340 vessels with 3.7 million TEUs capacity in 59 services – 29 mainliners and 30 shuttles.
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) has a fleet consisting of about 700 owned and chartered vessels with a total capacity of more than 4 million TEUs, operating in more than 130 countries. Affiliate APM Terminals operates 60 ports and terminals across 33 countries.
Hapag-Lloyd has a fleet of 287 container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.2 million TEUS, with 114 liner services worldwide connecting with more than 600 ports on all the continents.

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