One trend has become increasingly clear from the network overviews published by the alliances: Hong Kong is being rapidly deselected from the East-West trades by all major shipping lines. In the network overview provided by Gemini, there are no direct deep-sea calls in Hong Kong. For Ocean Alliance’s updated 2024 network, direct port calls in Hong Kong will decline from 11 to just 6. THE Alliance’s published their 2025 Transpacific network overview last week, and Hong Kong will be removed from their Pacific South West and Pacific North West services, and will only be served on a single Asia-US East Coast service. (....)