News / TPM 24: To hub-and-spoke, or not to hub-and-spoke? That is the question

Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen

The question of rates and annual contracts – and the effects of the Red Sea crisis on both – may have dominated discussions at this week’s TPM24 conference in Long Beach, but another persistent source of controversy has been the hub-and-spoke transhipment concept introduced by the Gemini Cooperation.

The sales pitch outlined by Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen is that it is a response to shipping’s chronic schedule reliability, which has so deteriorated since the pandemic.

“Over the past five years, not ...