{"id":12748,"date":"2024-01-03T20:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2024-01-03T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:46:51","slug":"focus-on-shipping-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/focus-on-shipping-alliances\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Shipping Alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shipping alliances emerged in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An &#8220;alliance&#8221; refers to a small group of carriers who pool significant assets and collaborate operationally, while retaining their own commercial and pricing identities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alliance members do not set freight rates collectively. Instead, they compete on prices, setting them independently. They often conclude ship-sharing agreements on major routes, each of which can be considered a relevant market in competition law jargon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The essence of shipping alliances lies in the close collaboration between member carriers. They pool their fleets, carrying containers on each other&#8217;s behalf to extend their services and geographical coverage, with the aim of increasing market share, reducing capacity shortages, improving co-loading, optimizing port calls, and minimizing overall risks as far as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many countries consider alliances to be a source of efficiency gains, and therefore grant them general exemptions from competition law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Major shipping alliances (in 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1657\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023.png 1657w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023-1024x449.png 1024w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Les-grandes-alliances-darmateurs-en-2023-1536x673.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1657px) 100vw, 1657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping alliances emerged in the 1990s. 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