APL joins Ocean Alliance

I am pleased to announce that APL, as part of the CMA CGM group, will join the league of the world’s largest container shipping lines in the OCEAN Alliance from April 2017.

OCEAN Alliance is poised to be the leading alliance in the industry, offering services across the seven key trades: Asia-North America (East Coast and West Coast), Asia-Europe, Asia-Mediterranean, Asia-Middle East, Asia-Red Sea and Trans-Atlantic. Such comprehensive coverage of the east-west trade is unparalleled in the history of shipping.

As a start, APL will be offering 38 loops under the OCEAN Alliance scope. This complements and enhances our existing global network of more than 70 other service loops. Meanwhile, APL continues to maintain our key strengths in our own exclusive services, including our own-operated Eagle Express Service (EX1), APL’s premier flagship service calling the U.S. West Coast.

What all these mean to you, our valued customer, is that APL is now bigger, stronger, and better-placed to meet the market demands and serve your shipping needs. What we bring to our customers is a greater portfolio of products and services, helping our customers expand their businesses into new markets with greater speed and predictability.

This marks the start of an exciting journey for us. APL will continue to make a difference beyond the reliable transportation of cargo from origin to destination. We will continually innovate to create value and shipping solutions that facilitate our customers’ global connectivity and speed-to-market.

I am eager to share more with you about the bigger, broader and better APL, and how we can help your business grow. In the meantime, we have prepared an information deck for your downloading. You can also find out more about the OCEAN Alliance service offerings on APL’s website at http://www.apl.com/wps/portal/apl/apl-home/services/oceanalliance.

As always, my team and I are at your service. Please do not hesitate to contact any one of us if you wish to discuss further.