24.09.12Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd Announce Ocean Network Options with Industry-Leading Schedule Reliability

In February 2025, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will launch an operational collaboration, the Gemini Cooperation. Its ambition is to deliver a flexible and interconnected ocean network with an industry-leading schedule reliability rate of above 90% once fully phased in.

Since the two companies unveiled the new long-term collaboration in January, they have been working on finalizing details of their operational collaboration which covers a joint ocean freight network on the east-west trades.

With around five months to launch, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are now ready to share an update covering finalized service maps and how the network has evolved since the announcement in January. Additionally, the companies are also presenting an alternative Cape of Good Hope network due to the on-going disruptions in the Red Sea.

In October, the Gemini Cooperation will announce which network it expects to put to sea in February 2025.

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 agile, intraregional shuttle services. The collaboration will comprise of either 300 or 340 vessels.