February 1st marked the start of a new competitive landscape in the pivotal deep-sea container trades from Asia to North America and Europe. Consequently, we looked at the changes in the market share of the shipping line alliances when compared to last year. Figure 1 shows the Asia-North America West Coast market share for both March 2024 and March 2025, for the shipping line alliances in operation in the two different timelines. Please note that ‘other’ here refers to the capacity across all non-alliance services, from both non-alliance carriers, and alliance carriers operating independent services outside of the alliance cooperation. (....)