Loadstar Podcast | January 2025 | Container shipping 2025: Hapag-Lloyd outlook, Swire’s transpacific strategy and Scan Global insight

In this special episode of The Loadstar Podcast, host Mike King unpacks a turbulent start to the year for container shipping. With major developments like the averted US port strikes, new container shipping alliances and a wave of fresh regulations, the stakes are high for global supply chains.

Henrik Schilling, Hapag-Lloyd’s MD for global commercial development, discusses the impacts of port productivity differentials, alliance restructuring and ambitious plans to boost schedule reliability via the carrier’s Gemini Cooperation with Maersk.