The members of THE Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, ONE and Yang Ming) will move four Transatlantic services to Hamburg rather than Bremerhaven. That follows an extensive range of route realignments across the Atlantic by members of all three container-line alliances this year. The move could prove to be a major problem for Bremerhaven as its volumes had already fallen 10% to 5.5 million TEUs over the past five years. U.S.-bound shipments from by the three carriers reached 276k TEUs in the past 12 months, or 9% of Bremerhaven’s outbound volumes. By contrast the services will add 7% to Hamburg’s...