News / MSC and Maersk unwind transatlantic fleets as rates hit new low

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The unravelling of MSC and Maersk’s 2M vessel-sharing alliance (VSA) fleet is continuing ahead of the termination of the east-west trades cooperation, slated for early 2025.

Alphaliner said today the 2M partners were “increasingly moving away from services run with a mixed fleet of vessels”.

The consultant said the embattled transatlantic tradelane was the latest 2M route to be split into services operated individually by the partners, thereby making the dissolution of the alliance smoother, and ...