Maersk Line aligning with MSC early 2015
Both companies reached an agreement to work together in July, just weeks after the failed P3-alliance due to a veto from China. The cooperative will include a total of 185 ships with a freight capacity of 2.1 million TEU. A little more than half of the capacity will originate from the Maersk Line. The scope of the shipping routes, called the '2M-network', is clearly smaller than the initial objective of the P3-alliance where also the French company CMA CGM would have participated.