The Ocean Alliance group of container lines has begun the next phase of operations, but with fewer ships than first declared a few months ago.

In late December, Rodolphe Saade-led CMA CGM announced plans to launch the world's largest boxship alliance's "Day Two Product", capable of carrying about 3.6 million teu through 340 ships.

Today, the French boxship owner said the alliance, made up of CMA CGM, CoscoCS, Evergreen and OOCL, will have a capacity of 3.1