News / Maersk targets transpacific premium market with extra standalone services

Maersk will launch two new weekly services on the transpacific in August to operate “exclusively” outside its 2M alliance with MSC and Zim slot charter partnership.

It said the services were timed to coincide with “the incoming peak surge” and it seems likely they will be targeted at the highly lucrative premium market.

The two new standalone loops – one from Asia to the US west coast and the other Asia-east coast – would “help normalise the network for our contracted customers”.

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