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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. The line subsequently expanded through the purchase of second-hand cargo ships.
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 ]
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The first 4 ships are operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and the remaining ships are operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 14,952 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [1] [2] [3]
Mediterranean Shipping Company: Operator: Mediterranean Shipping Company: Port of registry Panama [1] Builder: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Cost: US$ 140 million: Completed: December 2014: Identification: IMO number: 9703291 [1] General characteristics; Class and type: Olympic class Container ship: Tonnage: 197,362 DWT ...
On 13 April 2024 Iran seized MSC Aries, a Portuguese-registered and Madeira-flagged container ship owned by Gortal Shipping and leased to Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The ship, with a crew of 25 people, was boarded by Iranian commandos in the Strait of Hormuz , within international waters off the coast of the United Arab Emirates , [ 1 ...
In August 2022, the company accepted a takeover offer worth £3.7 billion from a South African consortium which included Remgro and Mediterranean Shipping Company. [10] In May 2023, the company confirmed that the South African Reserve Bank had approved the transaction, so allowing it to complete. [11]
The Gülsün class is a series of container ships built for Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The largest ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 23,756 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). They were the largest container ships in the world when they were launched in 2019, surpassing OOCL Hong Kong (21,413 TEU).