2016年5月13日，一家全新的聯(lián)盟宣告成立，并被命名為THE Alliance，該聯(lián)盟由六家班輪公司組成，分別是赫伯羅特、陽明海運、商船三井、日本郵船、川崎汽船、韓進海運。后來韓進海運破產(chǎn)，聯(lián)盟只剩下五家。
THE Alliance預計將于2017年4月運營，合作范圍涉及遠東-北歐航線、遠東-地中海航線、遠東-美國東/西海岸航線、跨大西洋航線、遠東-中東(波斯灣/紅海)航線。
THE Alliance將提供8條亞洲往返歐洲航線，其中包括3條地中海航線，并有1條航線專營中東地區(qū)，連結(jié)中國、韓國、東南亞地區(qū)重點港口與達曼、朱拜勒、阿拉伯灣之轉(zhuǎn)運港口，另有16條越太平洋航線提供亞洲往返北美之航線服務(wù)，聯(lián)盟也將提供6條越大西洋航線，廣泛覆蓋西北歐、地中海往返美國、加拿大、墨西哥的重要港口。
此外，THE Alliance航線服務(wù)網(wǎng)預期將涵蓋超過24個亞洲港口(包括10個中國港口、5個日本港口)、20個美國與加拿大港口、6個西北歐港口、13個地中海港口、6個中東港口、以及6個中美洲與加勒比海地區(qū)港口。
阿拉伯輪船雖沒能出現(xiàn)在THE Alliance成員名單中，但這家班輪公司目前正與赫伯羅特商談合作一事，如果兩家班輪公司最終合并運營，阿拉伯輪船在東西向航線投入的部分運力將轉(zhuǎn)移至THE Alliance。
最終的32條航線如下所示：
1、亞洲至北歐航線（Asia and North Europe）
FE 1:Kobe – Nagoya – Shimizu – Tokyo – Singapore– Jeddah – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Southampton – Le Havre – Singapore – Kobe
FE 2:Xingang – Dalian – Qingdao – Shanghai –Ningbo – Hong Kong – Yantian – Singapore – Tangier – Southampton – Hamburg –Rotterdam – Le Havre – Tangier – Jebel Ali – Hong Kong – Qingdao – Xingang
FE 3:Hong Kong – Xiamen – Kaohsiung – Yantian –Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp – London Gateway – Piraeus – Singapore – HongKong
FE 4:Pusan – Ningbo – Shanghai – Rotterdam –Hamburg – Antwerp – Southampton – Shekou – Yantian – Pusan
FE 5:Laem Chabang – Cai Mep – Singapore –Colombo – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp – London Gateway – Jeddah – Colombo –Singapore – Laem Chabang
2、亞洲至地中海航線（Asia and the Mediterranean）
MD 1:Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Yantian –Singapore – Damietta – Barcelona – Valencia – Fos – Genoa – Damietta –Singapore – Shekou – Qingdao
MD 2:Pusan – Ningbo – Shanghai – Kaohsiung –Yantian? – Singapore – Jeddah –Genoa – LaSpezia – Barcelona – Valencia – Singapore – Hong Kong – Pusan
MD 3:Pusan – Shanghai – Ningbo – Yantian –Singapore – Jeddah – Ashdod – Piraeus – Istanbul (Ambarli) – Izmir/Aliaga –Mersin – Jeddah – Singapore – Kaohsiung – Pusan
3、跨太平洋至西海岸航線（Trans Pacific – West Coast）
PN 1: Qingdao – Shanghai – Nagoya – Tokyo –Tacoma – Vancouver – Tokyo – Nagoya – Kobe – Qingdao
PN 2: Singapore – Laem Chabang – Cai Mep –Kaohsiung – Yantian – Tacoma – Vancouver – Tokyo – Kobe – Kaohsiung – Singapore
PN 3: Hong Kong – Yantian – Ningbo – Shanghai –Pusan – Vancouver – Seattle – Pusan – Hong Kong
PS 1: Kobe – Nagoya – Tokyo – Sendai – LosAngeles/Long Beach – Oakland – Tokyo – Nagoya – Kobe
PS 2: Kobe – Nagoya – Shimizu – Tokyo – LosAngeles/Long Beach – Oakland –Tokyo – Kobe
PS 3: Singapore – Laem Chabang – Cai Mep – HongKong – Los Angeles/Long Beach – Oakland –– Tokyo – Hong Kong – Singapore
PS 4: Hong Kong – Yantian – Kaohsiung –? Keelung – Los Angeles/Long Beach – Oakland –Keelung – Kaohsiung – Da Chan Bay – Hong Kong
PS 5: Shanghai – Ningbo – Los Angeles/Long Beach– Oakland – Shanghai
PS 6: Qingdao – Ningbo – Shanghai – Pusan – LosAngeles/Long Beach – Oakland – Pusan – Qingdao
PS 7: Xiamen – Hong Kong – Yantian – LosAngeles/Long Beach – Xiamen
PS 8: Dalian – Xingang – Qingdao – Pusan – LosAngeles/Long Beach – Oakland – Pusan – Kwangyang – Dalian
4、跨太平洋至東海岸航線（Trans Pacific – East Coast (via Panama and Suez)）
EC 1:Ningbo – Shanghai – Pusan – Tokyo – (PanamaCanal) – Manzanillo – Savannah – Jacksonville – Charleston – Norfolk – Miami(Seasonal) – Manzanillo – (Panama Canal) – Balboa – Los Angeles/Long Beach –Oakland – Tokyo – Kobe – Ningbo
EC 2: Qingdao – Ningbo – Shanghai – Pusan –(Panama Canal) – New York – Boston – Wilmington – Savannah – (Panama Canal) –Pusan – Qingdao
EC 3: Kaohsiung – Xiamen – Hong Kong – Yantian – Shanghai– (Panama Canal) – Savannah – Norfolk – (Panama Canal) – Balboa – Pusan –Kaohsiung
EC 4: Kaohsiung – Hong Kong – Yantian – Cai Mep –Singapore – (Suez Canal) – New York – Norfolk – Savannah – Jacksonville –Charleston – (Suez Canal) – Singapore – Kaohsiung
EC 5: Laem Chabang – Cai Mep – Singapore –Colombo – (Suez Canal) – Halifax – New York – Savannah – Norfolk – Halifax –(Suez Canal) – Jebel Ali – Singapore – Laem Chabang
5、跨大西洋航線（Trans Atlantic）
AL 1: Bremerhaven – Antwerp – London Gateway –Norfolk – Philadelphia – New York – Halifax – Bremerhaven
AL 2: London Gateway – Le Havre – Rotterdam –Bremerhaven – New York – Charleston – London Gateway
AL 3: Antwerp – Bremerhaven – Southampton –Charleston – Savannah – Port Everglades – Houston – Savannah – Norfolk –Antwerp
AL 4: Southampton – Antwerp – Bremerhaven – LeHavre – Veracruz – Altamira – Houston – New Orleans – Mobile – Southampton
AL 5: Southampton – Rotterdam – Hamburg – Antwerp– Le Havre – Savannah – Cartagena – Los Angeles/Long Beach – Oakland –Seattle/Tacoma – Vancouver – Oakland – Los Angeles/Long Beach – Balboa –Cartagena – Caucedo – Savannah – Southampton
AL 6: Salerno – Livorno – La Spezia – Genoa – FOS– Halifax – New York – Norfolk – Savannah – Salerno
AL 7: Barcelona – Tarragona – Valencia –Algeciras – Halifax – New York – Norfolk – Savannah – Valencia – Tarragona –Barcelona
6、亞洲至中東航線（Asia and the Middle East）
AGX: Pusan – Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo –Shekou – Singapore – Jebel Ali – Dammam – Jubail – Abu Dhabi –? Port Kelang – Singapore – Ningbo – Pusan
除公布上述具體航線外，該聯(lián)盟還公布了一項新的、獨特的應(yīng)急計劃。為防止聯(lián)盟內(nèi)成員破產(chǎn)及其他突發(fā)事項，聯(lián)盟五大成員將建立一個獨立的信托機構(gòu)來管理基金。目前的設(shè)想是，聯(lián)盟內(nèi)成員一旦有一個或多個成員宣布批產(chǎn)，該基金將用于聯(lián)盟維持正常運營。該獨立的信托基金將確保已配載至受影響船舶上的貨物運送至目的地。“對于去年夏天韓進海運破產(chǎn)突發(fā)時間，客戶對此類保障的需求十分清晰，而該聯(lián)盟的合作伙伴對于集裝箱運輸業(yè)第一份這樣的應(yīng)急計劃感到十分欣慰。”
