- In February 2025, Maersk A/S (Maersk), an entity under A.P. Moller – Maersk, and Hapag-Lloyd AG (Hapag-Lloyd) launched their operational collaboration Gemini Cooperation.
- The ambition is to deliver a flexible and interconnected ocean network with industry-leading schedule reliability above 90 percent once fully phased in.
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd launch two ocean networks through Gemini Cooperation, ensuring top reliability in global shipping operations, reads a Maersk release.
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd announce two ocean network options
In February 2025, the company Maersk A/S, Maersk, of the A P Moller – Maersk Group, together with Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hapag-Lloyd, will begin operational cooperation through the Gemini Cooperation. With this cooperation, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd intend to create an agile and inter-connected ocean network that features the industry’s highest schedule reliability of more than 90 percent once it reaches full ramp-up.
Since the announcement of the new long-term collaboration in January 2024, both companies have been working on finalizing the details of the operational collaboration in respect to a joint ocean freight network on East-West trades.
With around five months until its launch, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are now ready to introduce an update that covers finalized service maps, as well as how the network has evolved since the announcement in January this year. Besides this, the companies also introduce an alternative Cape of Good Hope network given the continued disruptions across the Red Sea.
“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, chief executive officer of Hapag-Lloyd.
The Gemini Cooperation will announce in October 2024, which network it expects to put to sea in February 2025.
Vincent Clerc, CEO of Maersk said, “We very much look forward to next year’s launch of our totally redesigned network, and welcome the opportunity to reaffirm that our schedule reliability target is unchanged irrespective of which network we will phase in. Our collaboration will, we believe raise the bar for reliability to the benefit of our customers, as well as setting a new very high standard in the industry.”
Depending on which network the cooperation will phase in, the new network includes either 27 or 29 efficient ocean mainliner services supported by an extensive network of 30 agile, intraregional shuttle services. The collaboration will be made up of a fleet of either 300 or 340 vessels.
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Source: Maersk
