ONE, HMM and Yang Ming confirm cooperation as Premier Alliance

Ocean Network Express (ONE), HMM and Yang Ming Marine Transport have announced that the three companies will continue to cooperate closely under the new alliance name Premier Alliance, which will be effective for five years from February 2025.

The cooperation is comprised of mainline services across the major East-West tradelines: Asia-North America West Coast, Asia-North America East Coast, Asia-Mediterranean, Asia-North Europe and Asia-Middle East.

The strategic and long-standing partnership enables ONE to continue delivering reliable and flexible services with expanded global coverage, ensuring enhanced value and seamless operation for customers, the shipping liner noted.

Jeremy Nixon, ONE CEO, said: “We are very pleased to announce that our strategic partnership with HMM and Yang Ming in the East-West trades will be further continued. The close network collaboration that exists between the three companies will be further strengthened and enhanced under this new collaboration starting from February 2025.

“Collectively this new tripartite alliance will offer strong, reliable and highly dependable end-to-end direct port container services to its customers on both the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe trades.”

The 2025 trans-Pacific trade service products had been introduced by ONE in March 2024 and a comprehensive update for all services for the major trade lanes will be announced separately.

Additionally, MSC will collaborate with Premier Alliance on slot exchange cooperation in the Asia-Europe trade, which will involve nine services and help ONE offer more extensive direct port coverage with frequent sailings in the Asia-North Europe and Mediterranean trade lanes.

Nixon said: “We are very pleased to announce this new strategic partnership with MSC, who is the leading carrier in the Asia-Europe trade. Collectively the Premier Alliance and MSC will be able to offer a very capable and extensive network of end-to-end port services to its customers from February 2025.

“We look forward to this new cooperation with MSC and both collaborating on our respective joint operational expertise and combined network synergies.”

ONE has announced its Asia-Europe, trans-Pacific, Asia-Middle East main trade lane products scheduled to commence in February next year.

The new product line-up offers a wider selection of reliable and flexible services, along with enhanced global coverage with more than 80 direct port calls.

Nixon said: “In addition to announcing today our new Asia-Europe deployment plans, we have now released our new 2025 product guide for trans-Pacific and Asia-Middle East trade from February. Since our inception in 2018, the number of ONE weekly services and our geographical coverage has continued to steadily grow.

“As a company, we are focused on delivering end-to-end full container load shipment solutions, allied to accurate and dependable equipment and space management outcomes, ably supported by our experienced quality customer service staff and the latest developments in digital services.”

Source: Container Management

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