The Aqua Times
ONE, HMM AND YANG MING FORM AN ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIP – PREMIER ALLIANCE
The new alliance between the three entities will be effective from February 2025. The cooperation consists of mainline services across the major East–West Tradelines: Asia–North America West Coast, Asia–North America East Coast, Asia–Mediterranean, Asia–North Europe, and Asia–Middle East.
TAT Newsdesk
10 Sept 2024
Ocean Network Express (“ONE”), HMM (“HMM”) and Yang Ming Marine Transportation (“Yang Ming”) announced that the three companies will form a new alliance under the umbrella of ‘Premier Alliance’. This strategic and long-standing partnership enables ONE to continue delivering reliable and flexible services with expanded global coverage, ensuring enhanced value and seamless operations for our customers.
“We are very pleased to announce that our strategic partnership with HMM and Yang Ming in the East-West trades will be further continued. The close network collaboration that exists between the three companies will be further strengthened and enhanced under this new collaboration starting from February 2025. Collectively this new tripartite alliance will offer strong, reliable and highly dependable end-to-end direct port container services to its customers on both the Transpacific and Asia-Europe trades.” Jeremy Nixon, CEO of ONE, shared his thoughts on this new collaboration and ONE’s business outlook going forward.
The 2025 Transpacific trade service products had been introduced earlier by ONE in March 2024. In continuation of this announcement, a comprehensive update for all services for the major trade lanes will be announced separately. With the Premier Alliance, ONE will continue to provide a wide coverage service to its customers, in addition to ONE’s independent services.
Premier Alliance to Cooperate with MSC in Asia – Europe Trade
ONE, a member of Premier Alliance, is pleased to announce the slot exchange cooperation between Premier Alliance and Mediterranean Shipping Company (“MSC”) in the Asia–Europe trade. The new slot exchange cooperation will involve nine services, which will allow ONE to offer more extensive direct port coverage with frequent sailings in the Asia–North Europe and Mediterranean trade lanes.
Jeremy Nixon, CEO of ONE, commented, “We are very pleased to announce this new strategic partnership with MSC, who is the leading carrier in the Asia – Europe trade. Collectively the Premier Alliance and MSC, will be able to offer a very capable and extensive network of end-to-end port services to its customers from February 2025 . We look forward to this new cooperation with MSC, and both collaborating on our respective joint operational expertise and combined network synergies.”
With the slot exchange cooperation with MSC, ONE will provide a broader range of networks to serve our valued customers.
ONE Announces East – West Products Effective from February 2025
ONE also announced that its Asia–Europe, Transpacific, Asia–Middle East main trade lane products are scheduled to commence in February 2025. The new product lineup offers a wider selection of reliable and flexible services, along with enhanced global coverage with more than 80 direct port calls. In addition to the cooperation of Premier Alliance, the newly established slot exchange cooperation with MSC in the Asia-Europe Trade lanes is aimed to further strengthen and improve the service network to fulfil the customer needs. Jeremy Nixon, CEO of ONE added, “In addition to announcing today our new Asia Europe deployment plans, we have now released our new 2025 Product guide for Transpacific and Asia – Middle East Trade from February. Since our inception in 2018, the number of ONE weekly services and our geographical coverage has continued to steadily grow. As a company, we are focused on delivering quality end-to-end full container load shipment solutions. Allied to accurate and dependable equipment and space management outcomes. Ably supported by our experienced quality customer service staff and the latest developments in digital services.”