The Premier Alliance vessel sharing agreement, which on Monday presented the configuration of its network of Containerized ocean freight for 2026 ( of 15 December 2025), for the new connections between Asia and the North Europe will use the hub and spoke model which provides for Main transcontinental maritime services Ports of call at hub ports on to converge a network of secondary feeder maritime services. The shipping company later specified it South Korean HMM, which is a partner of ONE and Yang Ming in the VSA, specifying that the Premier Alliance will reduce the number of stopovers on routes with Northern Europe focusing on key hub ports which have volumes of goods concentrated instead of on the previous practice of direct calls at several ports. In addition A network of secondary lines (spokes) will be set up convergence on the main ports to maximize the efficiency of the service.

Among the services most involved in this renovation of the maritime goods distribution system, which HMM has highlighted as the result of a strategic decision, there are the routes on which HMM uses its own Increased capacity of 24,000 TEUs. In particular, in the FE3 the number of stopovers will be decreased from 11 to eight, with the elimination in Asia of ports of call, albeit important, such as Busan and Xiamen and Rotterdam Europe. Busan will be included instead as a hub port in the FE4 service, where the number of calls will be reduced from 13 to five, with the cancellation of the toccatas in Asia, among others, at the ports of Kaohsiung, Yantian and Singapore, and in Europe to the ports of Algeciras and Felixstowe.