Ocean Alliance
Ocean Alliance is a vessel-sharing agreement linking CMA CGM, COSCO Shipping, Evergreen Marine and OOCL. The alliance operates joint services across the East-West container trades and has agreed to extend cooperation through 2032. The alliance covers the following East-West container trades: Asia-Europe, Asia-Mediterranean, Transpacific. Combined deployed capacity across the partnership stands at approximately 7,800,000 TEU as of the most recent published service network.
Vessel-sharing alliances such as Ocean Alliance let member carriers pool capacity on long-haul trade lanes, run more frequent loops without each operator having to deploy a full string of mega-vessels, and offer customers wider port coverage and tighter schedules than any single carrier could deliver alone. Alliance partnerships do not extend to commercial sales — each member sells its own slots and contracts with shippers under its own house bill — but they do govern which physical ship carries each container on the water.
Ocean Alliance members
- CMA CGM — Marseille, France; SCAC CMDU; 644 vessels.
- COSCO Shipping — Shanghai, China; SCAC COSU; 528 vessels.
- Evergreen Marine — Taoyuan, Taiwan; SCAC EGLV; 215 vessels.
- OOCL — Hong Kong; SCAC OOLU; 105 vessels.
Trade-lane coverage
Ocean Alliance operates jointly on the following deep-sea container trades. Each lane is served by a rotation of vessels contributed by member carriers, with one carrier acting as the lead operator on each loop.
- Asia-Europe — joint vessel rotation; weekly or fortnightly fixed-day sailings depending on the loop.
- Asia-Mediterranean — joint vessel rotation; weekly or fortnightly fixed-day sailings depending on the loop.
- Transpacific — joint vessel rotation; weekly or fortnightly fixed-day sailings depending on the loop.