[Alberta's Child]

So you can have cargo travelling under a P&O Neddlloyd Bill of Lading, inside a NYK container, laden on an OOCL vessel being serviced by a port run by K-Line.

Very good summary.

It's also worth noting that these "alliance" relationships are one of the key reasons why so few maritime shipping conglomerates are U.S. companies. Most of them operate in these cartels like the one you just described, and this kind of relationship between these companies would likely be a violation of U.S. anti-trust law.

[pacelvi]

Actually US Law specificially allows this.