News / Shippers prepare risk-mitigation plans ahead of anticipated boxship alliance shake-up

With a radical overhaul of liner shipping’s alliance structure increasingly certain over the next 12 months, shippers are dusting down their risk mitigation strategies.

Siva Narayanan, director of international operations and warehousing at Solvay Chemicals, told delegates at this week’s Transpacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach that although it was too early to know the exact make-up of the new alliances, “we can make some general assumptions”.

“In 2016, there are not going to be any changes; they are going to come in ...