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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(until February 2025) Independent (from March 2025) 2 Maersk Denmark: 4,193,392 685 14.6% [Note 2] 2M (until February 2025) Gemini (from March 2025) 3 CMA CGM France: 3,635,418 634 12.7% [Note 3]
MSC Tomoko in the Santa Barbara Channel, 2009. Mediterranean Shipping Company was founded in Naples in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship, Patricia, followed by Rafaela, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and Somalia.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Cruise line registered in Switzerland MSC Cruises Company type Privately held company Industry Transportation Founded 1988 ; 37 years ago (1988) Naples, Italy Founder Gianluigi Aponte Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland Area served Worldwide Products Cruises Number of employees 23,500 Parent ...
In October 2018, MSC Group announced an order with Fincantieri for four luxury cruise ships. This was later increased to six, with deliveries running through to 2028. [2] The line's first ship, Explora I completed its sea trials in April 2023. Delivery was delayed due to faulty fire panels.
During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the German Olympic Committee used the MS Deutschland as a hospitality ship. [6] On 19 May 2015 the MS Deutschland was sold over to the Absolute Nevada company based in the United States, which purchased the ship for approximately $21 million. The new owners took on approximately half of the crew.
MSC Air Cargo, cargo airline owned by Mediterranean Shipping Company MSC Industrial Direct , formerly Manhattan Supply Company MSC Software , simulation software company, formerly MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
Each episode of the series follows a particular sea-going vessel and provides an insight into the ship and its crew. The first episode of the tenth season, [ 4 ] featuring the Faroes ' largest ferry ship, MS Norröna , was first broadcast in Canada on 3 December 2017. [ 5 ]
MSC Daniela is the lead ship of her class of container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company that at 366 metres (1,200 ft 9 in) is one of the largest container ships of the world, with a twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) cargo capacity of 14,000 containers.