COPENHAGEN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Denmark's Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) and Swiss-based MSC, the world's largest container shipping companies, said on Wednesday they had agreed to end a vessel sharing alliance in January 2025, allowing them to pursue individual strategies.
Both companies saw the alliance as a way to manage more capacity after purchasing new mega-ships.
"Today, we have a much different strategy, where we more look at how to integrate container shipping at sea with our land-based logistics business," Maersk's head of ocean shipping Johan Sigsgaard told Reuters in an interview.
Maersk expects to be able to deliver ocean shipping at the same scale when the partnership with MSC ends without rising the cost of moving each container at sea, Sigsgaard said.
MSC, privately owned by the Aponte family, overtook Maersk as the world's biggest container in 2021.