News / Carriers bid to impress shippers with faster Asia-North Europe transit times

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The new alliance networks will offer faster transit times between Asia and North Europe’s major hubs, but only at the expense of extended voyage times to secondary ports, according to new analysis from Drewry Maritime Advisors.

Drewry’s analysis of the pro-forma schedules published by the 2M+HMM, Ocean and THE alliances for 1 April concludes that the vessel-sharing groups have “tried to impress shippers” with faster transits on main routes.

For example, the 12 weekly calls from Shanghai to Rotterdam by the three alliances ...