List of largest container shipping companies
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Several shipping lines are involved in intermodal freight transport as part of international trade.
List of largest container shipping companies[edit]
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as 14 April 2022, 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 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 | ![]() ![]() |
4,339,852 | 663 | 17.1% | [Note 1] | 2M |
2 | Maersk | ![]() |
4,245,962 | 729 | 16.7% | [Note 2] | 2M |
3 | CMA CGM | ![]() |
3,261,052 | 578 | 12.8% | [Note 3] | Ocean Alliance |
4 | COSCO | ![]() |
2,927,413 | 474 | 11.5% | [Note 4] | Ocean Alliance |
5 | Hapag-Lloyd | ![]() |
1,742,598 | 247 | 6.9% | [Note 5] | THE Alliance |
6 | Ocean Network Express (ONE) | ![]() |
1,515,708 | 207 | 6.0% | [Note 6] | THE Alliance |
7 | Evergreen Marine Corporation | ![]() |
1,504,564 | 200 | 5.9% | [Note 7] | Ocean Alliance |
8 | HMM Co. Ltd. | ![]() |
820,320 | 76 | 3.2% | THE Alliance | |
9 | Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation | ![]() |
666,164 | 93 | 2.6% | THE Alliance | |
10 | Zim Integrated Shipping Services | ![]() |
463,277 | 127 | 1.8% | ||
11 | Wan Hai Lines | ![]() |
412,204 | 147 | 1.6% | ||
12 | Pacific International Lines | ![]() |
284,370 | 89 | 1.1% | [Note 8] | |
13 | Korea Marine Transport Corporation | ![]() |
156,995 | 68 | 0.6% | ||
14 | IRISL Group | ![]() |
149,042 | 32 | 0.6% | [Note 9] | |
15 | Unifeeder | ![]() |
143,949 | 96 | 0.6% | ||
16 | X-Press Feeders | ![]() |
142,939 | 93 | 0.6% | [Note 10] | |
17 | Shandong International Transportation Corporation | ![]() |
142,650 | 97 | 0.6% | ||
18 | TS Lines | ![]() |
108,860 | 53 | 0.4% | ||
19 | Zhonggu Logistics Corporation | ![]() |
108,844 | 95 | 0.4% | ||
20 | Sinokor Merchant Marine | ![]() |
107,003 | 74 | 0.4% | ||
21 | Antong Holdings (QASC) | ![]() |
91,934 | 95 | 0.4% | ||
22 | Sea Lead Shipping | ![]() |
87,180 | 23 | 0.3% | ||
23 | China United Lines | ![]() |
85,253 | 32 | 0.3% | ||
24 | Regional Container Lines | ![]() |
73,133 | 40 | 0.3% | ||
25 | Matson | ![]() |
68,563 | 29 | 0.3% | ||
26 | SM Line | ![]() |
65,277 | 13 | 0.3% | ||
27 | Global Feeder Shipping LLC | ![]() |
62,390 | 20 | 0.2% | ||
28 | Emirates Shipping Line | ![]() |
56,541 | 12 | 0.2% | ||
29 | Arkas Container Transport | ![]() |
53,049 | 32 | 0.2% | ||
30 | Swire Shipping | ![]() |
47,248 | 25 | 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, 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 United Arab Shipping Company, CSAV and NileDutch
- ^ Includes Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and K Line
- ^ Includes Italia Marittima and Uniglory Marine
- ^ Includes Advance Container Line (ACL), Pacific Direct Line (PDL), and Mariana Express Lines Ltd. (MELL)
- ^ Includes Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, HDS Lines, Valfajre Eight Shipping Company, and Khazar Shipping Company
- ^ Includes Consortium and X-Press Container Line
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "PublicTop100". alphaliner.axsmarine.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
- ^ "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.