Comment / Ocean topography – container alliance landscape takes shape

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With the announcement yesterday, 9 September, that the remaining THE Alliance members – Yang Ming, HMM and ONE – have renewed the grouping and rebranded it the Premier Alliance (a far better name, by the way) for a five-year period, shippers and forwarders can at least count on one aspect of the industry remaining stable for the best part of the remainder of the decade.

In fact 

A shake-up of the respective alliance structures has been on the cards since Mærsk and ...