Today, the shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk have announced an update of the network of scheduled services that will become operational in February 2025 in conjunction with the entry into force of their new collaboration agreement long-term operational operation called Gemini Cooperation ( of 17 January 2024). The network will consist of a network of 27-29 primary scheduled services and 30 shuttle services infra-regional. Unlike what was announced at the beginning of this year ( of 18 January 2024), there will be five instead of four ports touched by the Gemini Cooperation network, which in addition to Genoa, Livorno, Trieste and Vado Ligure will also make stopovers at the port of La Spezia.

Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk presented two configurations of the Gemini Cooperation's new network with services in transit in the Suez Canal or with services that circumnavigate Africa passing around the Cape of Good Hope in case the ongoing crisis in the Red Sea that prevents the use of the of Egyptian water. In both cases, the number of scheduled services that will touch Italian ports, a total of nine, including four primary services via Suez (or three via Good Hope) and five shuttle services via Good Hope or via Suez.

In particular, at the port of Genoa, the main primary port Italian port of call in the Gemini Cooperation network, will land a total of four services (three via Buona Speranza), of which two that will connect Asia with the Mediterranean and Europe with the North America (both primary via Suez or Good Hope), one connecting Europe with the Middle East/India via Suez and a shuttle service that will connect the port of Ligurian capital with Tanger Med and Algeciras. At the port of Vado Ligure two services will arrive: a primary one that will connect the Middle East/India with the western Mediterranean via Suez or one that will connect the Red Sea with the Mediterranean always via Suez and a shuttle service that will connect the port of call with Livorno and the Spanish ports of Valencia and Algeciras and the Moroccan port of Tanger Med.

The other three Italian ports in the network will be called by shuttle services: the line that will connect the airport with Tanger Med, Algeciras, Barcelona and Fos; in Livorno the shuttle will be taken up and will also touch Livorno, Valencia, Tanger Med, Algeciras and Vado Ligure; in Trieste will take the shuttle line that will connect the port Julian with the Egyptian one in Port Said.