HMM operations in 2026
HMM Co., Ltd. is headquartered in South Korea and sails in the Premier Alliance. Bookings, shipping instructions, and bills of lading run through HMM's own channels, the HMM e-Service portal and EDI, and HMM is a DCSA member with a standards-based API path across booking, shipping instructions, bill of lading, and tracking. Two facts shape clean HMM documentation: a unified filing identity under one code, and a documented eBL platform.
The HDMU filing identity. HMM's registered SCAC is HDMU, and with no documented filing-code split, the same HDMU serves as the EDI and AMS filing code and the bill of lading number prefix. HMMU is the second container box prefix. There is no separate EDI or AMS code to track and no change-of-code event, so a forwarder running both HMM and a carrier with a split filing code can treat HMM as the clean case: one value covers the registered SCAC, the filing code, and the B/L number.
Premier Alliance. HMM sails with ONE and Yang Ming in the Premier Alliance, effective 9 February 2025 for a five-year term, across the five East-West mainline trades: Asia to North America West Coast, Asia to North America East Coast, Asia to the Mediterranean, Asia to North Europe, and Asia to the Middle East, with an MSC slot-exchange on the Asia-Europe trade from February 2025. The Premier Alliance replaced THE Alliance after Hapag-Lloyd left for Gemini. An HMM booking on a mainline East-West service may sail on ONE or Yang Ming tonnage; the booking confirmation names the operating carrier.
Schedule reliability. Sea-Intelligence GLP #178 (April/May 2026, trade arrivals) puts Premier Alliance reliability at 54.0%, the lowest of the four major alliance groupings. That is an alliance-level figure; no HMM carrier-level reliability figure is published. Forwarders booking Premier Alliance services should treat schedule reliability as a watchpoint, not a fixed number.
What Expedion handles for HMM
All five operational workflows, on one page.
Booking. HMM e-Service (hmm21.com) is the carrier-owned booking platform: Step-by-Step booking, a Shipment Dashboard, and My Export and My Import integrated views, with Hi-Quote for instant quotes. As a DCSA member HMM has implemented Booking 2.0, so a standards-based booking API path exists at apiportal.hmm21.com alongside the portal and HMM EDI. On Premier Alliance mainline East-West services an HMM booking may sail on ONE or Yang Ming tonnage, so the operating-carrier caveat applies and the booking confirmation names the operating carrier. Contract and spot rate specifics, and any booking-amendment fees, sit behind tariff and login walls and are not stated here.
Shipping instructions. HMM e-Service accepts shipping-instruction submission through Input S/I on the portal, HMM EDI, and the DCSA Bill of Lading 3.0 Shipping Instructions module HMM has implemented, so a standards-based SI API path exists. The portal also offers VGM Entry. SI, CY, and VGM cut-off hours sit behind login and are not stated here; Expedion agents work the documented channels.
Bill of lading. HMM works with leading eBL service providers and documents its electronic bill of lading flow on the CargoX Platform: Login, Issue, Receive in the CargoX Platform, Transfer to the consignee, and Surrender for delivery. The eBL is legally recognised and fully valid, supported by the MLETR (Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records). As a DCSA member HMM has implemented Bill of Lading 3.0 (Shipping Instructions, Transport Document, Issuance, Surrender), the most complete Bill of Lading 3.0 set among the Tier 2 carriers. HMM works toward the DCSA-wide 100% eBL by 2030 commitment, the goal of nine DCSA carriers announced 15 February 2023, stated as the DCSA goal. Bill of lading amendment fees and turnaround times are not sourced and are not stated here.
Documentation. VGM (HMM e-Service VGM Entry), dangerous-goods and out-of-gauge declarations (DG and OOG Application), and advance manifest filings. US AMS is filed under SCAC HDMU: the registered SCAC is HDMU and, with no filing-code split, the same value serves as the EDI and AMS filing code and the B/L number prefix, with HMMU as the second container box prefix, so there is no separate filing code to track. For the EU, the Entry Summary Declaration is lodged via ICS2, the EU regime mandatory for sea carriers from 3 June 2024 and for house-level filers from 4 December 2024. No HMM-specific ICS2 or ENS surcharge is stated here, and no figure is ported from another carrier. No carrier-specific dangerous-goods penalty or approval time is stated.
Tracking. HMM is a DCSA member with Track and Trace 2.2 implemented and an HMM API portal (apiportal.hmm21.com), so a standards-based Track and Trace API path exists, alongside the HMM e-Service Shipment Dashboard, HMM EDI, and the HMM Chatbot, which answers booking, bill of lading, schedule, and cargo-tracking queries. On Premier Alliance legs, milestone events originate from the operating carrier's system, so agents identify the operating carrier per booking and reconcile milestones accordingly.
HMM's fee schedules, including any bill of lading amendment, manual shipping instruction, and ENS or ICS2 surcharges, sit behind regional tariff pages and login walls, and the amounts vary by region. Pages on this site cite validated figures only and mark un-sourced geographies as gaps rather than inventing numbers.
TMS compatibility
Expedion agents operate HMM workflows on top of your existing TMS, connecting through HMM EDI and HMM e-Service browser sessions. HMM is a DCSA member that has implemented Track and Trace 2.2, Booking 2.0, and Bill of Lading 3.0, the most complete Bill of Lading 3.0 set among the Tier 2 carriers and the only Booking 2.0 path of the three, so the integration pattern is API-where-available across booking, shipping instructions, bill of lading, and tracking, plus portal sessions and EDI. Your system of record stays intact.
Frequently asked questions
What SCAC code should I use for HMM AMS filing?
HDMU. HMM's registered SCAC is HDMU, with HMMU as a second container box prefix. There is no separate filing code, so the same HDMU value covers the registered SCAC, the AMS filing, and the bill of lading number. Expedion agents file HMM AMS under HDMU.
How deep is HMM's DCSA API?
HMM has implemented Track and Trace 2.2, Booking 2.0, and Bill of Lading 3.0 (Shipping Instructions, Transport Document, Issuance, Surrender), with an HMM API portal, the most complete Bill of Lading 3.0 set among the Tier 2 carriers. Booking, shipping instructions, bill of lading, and tracking all have a standards-based API path, and HMM is the only one of the Tier 2 carriers to expose DCSA Booking 2.0.
Does HMM offer electronic bills of lading?
Yes. HMM works with leading eBL service providers and documents its eBL flow on the CargoX Platform; the eBL is legally recognised and fully valid, supported by the MLETR. HMM works toward the DCSA-wide 100% eBL by 2030 commitment, the goal of nine DCSA carriers announced in February 2023.