Is Direct Shipping Becoming a Premium Product?

Direct service is scarcer. But is it better?

Container fleets are bigger than ever.

But direct service is becoming harder to replace.

For 65% of Asia–Europe port pairs, only one network goes direct.

Only 5% have direct service from all four.

That can make direct shipping more valuable.

But Gemini shows another model can work.

It moves more cargo through hubs.

Yet reliability has been much higher than other networks.

So what are customers really paying for?

Here are 5️⃣ signals behind it:

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1️⃣ The network is thinner

• 2018: ~12K direct connections. ~80K monthly calls.