News / Gemini partners defend on-time target and promise cost competitiveness

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With the container shipping industry seemingly unable to improve its schedule reliability scores beyond the mid-50% range since the autumn, questions continue to be raised about the forthcoming Gemini cooperation’s on-time targets.

The Gemini carriers – Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd – have set out a 90% on-time target, which they said would be achieved by doubling down on the use of transhipment across their new global network.

Speaking on this week’s The Loadstar Podcast, Hapag-Lloyd’s senior director of strategy Matthias Dietrich, explained that ...