List of largest container shipping companies
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List of largest container shipping companies edit
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet.[1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996.[2] Hanjin Shipping was also one of the biggest but it is now defunct.[3]
| Rank | Company name | Headquarters | Total TEU |
Ships | Market share |
Notes | Alliance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) |  Switzerland
|
5,705,424 | 801 | 19.9% | [Note 1] | 2M |
| 2 | Maersk |  Denmark
|
4,193,392 | 685 | 14.6% | [Note 2] | 2M (until February 2025)
Gemini (since March 2025) |
| 3 | CMA CGM |  France
|
3,635,418 | 634 | 12.7% | [Note 3] | Ocean Alliance |
| 4 | COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO) |  China
|
3,092,220 | 491 | 10.8% | [Note 4] | Ocean Alliance |
| 5 | Hapag-Lloyd |  Germany
|
2,004,030 | 274 | 7.0% | [Note 5] | THE Alliance (until February 2025)
Gemini (since March 2025) |
| 6 | Ocean Network Express (ONE) |  Japan
|
1,809,846 | 232 | 6.3% | [Note 6] | THE Alliance |
| 7 | Evergreen Marine Corporation |  Taiwan
|
1,648,821 | 212 | 5.7% | [Note 7] | Ocean Alliance |
| 8 | HMM Co. Ltd. |  South Korea
|
797,327 | 71 | 2.8% | THE Alliance | |
| 9 | Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation | Taiwan
|
708,591 | 94 | 2.5% | THE Alliance | |
| 10 | Zim Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM) |  Israel
|
655,751 | 128 | 2.3% | ||
| 11 | Wan Hai Lines | Taiwan
|
481,225 | 118 | 1.7% | ||
| 12 | Pacific International Lines (PIL) |  Singapore
|
295,567 | 89 | 1.0% | [Note 8] | |
| 13 | Shandong International Transportation Corporation (SITC) | China
|
160,156 | 101 | 0.6% | ||
| 14 | X-Press Feeders | Singapore
|
157,681 | 81 | 0.5% | [Note 9] | |
| 15 | Korea Marine Transport Corporation (KMTC) | South Korea
|
150,704 | 64 | 0.5% | ||
| 16 | Sea Lead Shipping | Singapore
|
141,202 | 32 | 0.5% | ||
| 17 | Unifeeder | Denmark
|
138,995 | 86 | 0.5% | ||
| 18 | IRISL Group |  Iran
|
137,720 | 31 | 0.5% | [Note 10] | |
| 19 | Sinokor Merchant Marine | South Korea
|
122,252 | 80 | 0.4% | ||
| 20 | Zhonggu Logistics Corporation | China
|
120,042 | 86 | 0.4% | ||
| 21 | TS Lines | Taiwan
|
92,655 | 44 | 0.3% | ||
| 22 | Antong Holdings (QASC) | China
|
83,868 | 84 | 0.3% | ||
| 23 | Regional Container Lines (RCL) |  Thailand
|
77,153 | 34 | 0.3% | ||
| 24 | Global Feeder Shipping LLC |  United Arab Emirates
|
76,616 | 33 | 0.3% | ||
| 25 | Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co. | China
|
75,077 | 80 | 0.3% | ||
| 26 | Emirates Shipping Line | United Arab Emirates
|
72,188 | 14 | 0.3% | ||
| 27 | Swire Shipping | Singapore
|
71,023 | 36 | 0.2% | ||
| 28 | Matson |  United States
|
69,235 | 29 | 0.2% | ||
| 29 | SM Line | South Korea
|
64,109 | 14 | 0.2% | ||
| 30 | Arkas Line |  Turkey
|
59,465 | 36 | 0.2% |
Notes edit
- ^ Includes WEC Lines
- ^ Includes P&O Nedlloyd, Safmarine, SeaLand and Hamburg Süd
- ^ Includes APL, Neptune Orient Lines, ANL, Comanav, CNC Line, Delmas, Mercosul Line, and Containerships
- ^ Includes COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO), China Shipping Container Lines (China Shipping Group), Orient Overseas Container Line (Orient Overseas (International) Limited), Shanghai Pan Asia Shipping, New Golden Sea Shipping, and Coheung
- ^ Includes CP Ships, Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores (CSAV), United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), Nile Dutch Investments B.V. (NileDutch), and Deutsche Afrika-Linien/John T. Essberger (DAL/JTE)
- ^ Includes Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line)
- ^ Includes Italia Marittima and Uniglory Marine
- ^ Includes Advance Container Line (ACL), Pacific Direct Line (PDL), and Mariana Express Lines Ltd. (MELL)
- ^ Includes Consortium and X-Press Container Line
- ^ Includes Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, HDS Lines, Valfajre Eight Shipping Company, and Khazar Shipping Company
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "PublicTop100". alphaliner.axsmarine.com. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
- ^ "A single neopanamax acquisition is all that separates Msc and Maersk at the top of the liner rankings". www. splash247.com. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ^ "HANJIN SHIPPING". Journal of Commerce Online.