MSC is significantly expanding its standalone services on major trade routes. Currently, MSC’s fleet on the Asia-North America and Far East-Europe routes consists of 733,000 TEUs, representing 33.2% of the capacity on these routes. They operate four loops on the Asia-Europe lane, including the 2M ‘Lion’, 2M ‘Griffin’, ‘Sentosa-Swan’, and ‘Britannia’, which serve North Europe. Additionally, they run three loops to the Mediterranean: the 2M ‘Jade’, 2M ‘Tiger’, and the standalone ‘Dragon’. MSC’s standalone capacity is poised for further growth. Their new China-Korea-Long Beach ‘Mustang’ service, which commenced on July 20, is still in the process of fully staffing its fleet. MSC also introduced a new Far East-US East Coast ‘Liberty’ loop on August 8. Once all vessels are in place, MSC’s standalone capacity on the Asia-Europe and Transpacific lanes will rise to 921,000 TEUs, increasing their non-alliance share on these routes to 38.4%. In comparison, Hapag-Lloyd currently has 15.4% of its non-alliance capacity allocated to the standalone Far East-North Europe ‘China Germany Express’ (‘CGX’) service. Additionally, Hapag-Lloyd provides five 15,440 TEU ships for the AA7 Asia-US East Coast loop, which is operated jointly with Wan Hai.