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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – THE Alliance and Ocean Alliance vessel-sharing partners are taking full advantage of the 2M’s potentially messy

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd has confirmed that THE Alliance vessels deployed on the Asia-North Europe tradelane are no longer making a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – South Korean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is to join THE Alliance when its slot charter agreement with the 2M

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – London Gateway is to lose one of its much-prized Asia-Europe services next year after THE Alliance partners unveiled

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – THE Alliance could find itself on the wrong side of a $500 per teu cost differential on the key Asia-North Europe

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) yesterday approved THE Alliance’s plan for a $50m contingency fund in case one of

By Gavin van Marle & Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – As the new alliance structure prepares to get underway tomorrow, with the Ocean and THE alliances

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – THE Alliance is to set up an independently managed trust fund to safeguard cargo operations should one of its liner

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has completed its review of the proposed vessel-sharing alliance “THE Alliance”, allowing the grouping

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – In the wake of the Hanjin bankruptcy, THE Alliance has devised a “catastrophic instrument” funding mechanism, to be

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar). – THE Alliance – Hapag-Lloyd, K Line, MOL, NYK and Yang Ming – have announced their pro-forma east-west tradelane

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – “Alliances are only as stable as their member carriers,” was maritime consultant Drewry’s first comment on plans

By Chris Bryant (Bloomberg) — Airlines long ago cottoned on to the fact that being part of an alliance could save them money and help them offer

By Jonathan Saul and Vera Eckert LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 13 (Reuters) – German container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd has formed a new alliance with five