When shippers or carriers jointly plan and allocate cargo space on a single vessel, the core mechanism is consolidation: bookings from multiple parties are pooled, containers or pallets combined into full loads, and vessel utilization improves for all involved.
Source: https://www.ics-shipping.org/shipping-fact/vessel-sharing-agreements
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