Ocean container shipping alliances

6 active and historical vessel-sharing agreements

The deep-sea container trades are dominated by a small number of vessel-sharing alliances. Member carriers pool capacity on the long-haul East-West services so that any one operator can offer a higher-frequency, wider-port-coverage product than its own deployed fleet would otherwise allow. Below is the current map of active alliances plus the recent legacy partnerships that they replaced.

• 2M Alliance — dissolved 2025; 2 members; 5,400,000 TEU.
• Ocean Alliance — active; 4 members; 7,800,000 TEU.
• THE Alliance — dissolved 2025; 4 members; 4,900,000 TEU.
• Gemini Cooperation — active; 2 members; 6,400,000 TEU.
• Premier Alliance — active; 3 members; 3,700,000 TEU.
• MSC Standalone Network — active; 1 members; 6,500,000 TEU.