News / MSC and Maersk 'decouple' their fleets, ready to go their separate ways

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Ahead of the demise of the 2M Alliance at the end of next year, MSC and Maersk have already ’decoupled’ their fleets, deploying their vessels on individual service loops.

This has fuelled speculation that the carriers will agree to end their east-west vessel-sharing alliance early.

Alphaliner said: “Services previously operated with a mix of MSC and Maersk ships have gradually been altered to leave one ship operator per loop.”

On the Asia-North Europe tradelane, for ...