At the Xeneta Summit in Amsterdam, the leaders of the new Gemini Cooperation, Kenni Skotte, Vice President and Head of Ocean Network Product at Maersk, and Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, took the stage together and expressed their confidence that their new partnership will meet its ambitious service reliability target, which is significantly higher than the industry average.
The Gemini Cooperation, which is scheduled to launch on February 1, 2025, combines transshipment “spoke” services with mainliner “hub” ports in a new “hub and spoke” strategy. In an industry that is now struggling with a global average of only 53%, the model seeks to dramatically increase reliability, aiming for 90% service reliability.
Launching via the lengthier Cape of Good Hope route to circumvent the Red Sea, the partnership will cover seven trades and provide 57 trips, including dedicated shuttle and mainliner services.
Both Habben Jansen and Skotte stressed during the Summit that shippers will benefit from more solid and dependable services as transshipment networks are used more frequently.
The system design of the Gemini Cooperation, which isolates delays to avoid the snowball effect frequently observed in contemporary operations, is the source of its confidence.
Due to current problems in the Red Sea, the Gemini Cooperation has announced that when operations begin in February, its ships will circumnavigate Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Habben Jansen and Skotte both promised that Gemini’s aggressive 90% dependability goal would not be impacted by this route adjustment.
