2M alliance between Maersk and MSC to discontinue in January 2025

2M is a container shipping line vessel sharing agreement (VSA). It was introduced in 2015 by Maersk and MSC with the aim of ensuring competitive and cost-efficient operations on the Asia-Europe, Transatlantic and Transpacific trades.

Yes, the 2M alliance is discontinuing.

Following a thorough evaluation process, Maersk and MSC have jointly decided to discontinue the 2M alliance in January 2025.

The changes are currently expected to take place on all the 2M networks, unless otherwise agreed.

Since 2M was formed in 2015, Maersk's strategy has changed, as have the needs of our customers. Maersk wants to accelerate becoming an integrated provider of logistics, connecting, and simplifying our customers' supply chains. Discontinuing the 2M alliance paves the way for Maersk to efficiently focus on our Integrator strategy to meet the evolving needs of our customers, including reliability, flexibility, and sustainability.

The 2M alliance will discontinue in January 2025.

We will do our utmost to minimise any disruptions to the 2M service leading up to 2025, bearing in mind any steps needed to wind down 2M.

MSC has been a valuable partner and we look forward to a continued strong collaboration throughout the remainder of the agreement period.

Maersk remains committed to doing our utmost to ensure as little disruption is caused to our customers as is possible in the lead up to the discontinuation in January 2025.

In this regard, we will regularly review the individual strings in the 2M alliance to optimise competitiveness and efficiency.

We remain steadfast in our focus on offering reliable, flexible, and resilient logistical solutions for our customers, and creating unmatched, value-adding outcomes for their businesses. As an integrated end-to-end logistics partner to our customers, we believe in listening closely to the feedback we receive from you, so we can continue to deliver solutions that help with current and future supply chain needs, with improved reliability, flexibility, and sustainability.

We believe that discontinuing the 2M alliance paves the way for us to efficiently deliver on our integrator strategy and meet the evolving needs of our customers. Maersk is developing new network designs to continue to offer products with competitive port coverage and transit times. Details on our new ocean network post 2M will be shared in due course.

Should you have any further questions, please contact your local Maersk contact. Our customer service and commercial teams are always available to support on this with further information.