MAERSK has lost its top spot as the world's biggest container shipping line, but it has overtaken CMA CGM and Cosco on the transpacific route, according to Alphaliner.
The Asia to North America container trade lane survey shows 2M partners MSC and Maersk were the fastest growing carriers with both lines launching many standalone loops not part of their alliance, notes Singapore's Splash 247.
Another development is that the market share of the three major alliances on the transpacific fell from 82.2 per cent to 67.7 per cent as a result of global carriers' decisions to launch standalone services as well as the entry of many new niche carriers onto the booming trade lane.
Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence has also been looking at the transpacific trades recently noting the regular influx of smaller vessels over the past year.
On the Asia-North America west coast route, Sea-Intelligence saw a considerable decrease from a pre-Covid baseline of 6,000 to 6,500 TEU to just under 4,500 TEU in 2022. The same was the case on Asia-North America east coast, with the figure dropping from a 2020 baseline of 7,500 to 8,000 TEU to just over 6,000 TEU in 2022.
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