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  1. Mediterranean Shipping Company - Wikipedia

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    Mediterranean Shipping Company. Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, since 1978. [4] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and ...

  2. Atlantic Container Line - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic Compass on the Elbe. Atlantic Companion arriving at Liverpool. Generation 4 class Atlantic Sail. Atlantic Container Line is an American, previously Swedish, shipping company owned by the Italian Grimaldi Group. The company operates large roll-on/roll-off (RORO) container ships between Europe and North America.

  3. List of freight ship companies - Wikipedia

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    Sea freight transport by container ship. This list of freight ship companies is arranged by country. Companies listed own and/or operate bulk carriers, car carriers, container ships, Roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers.

  4. Twenty-foot equivalent unit - Wikipedia

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    The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.

  5. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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    A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with ...

  6. OOCL - Wikipedia

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    OOCL was founded by C. Y. Tung in 1947 as the Orient Overseas Line. In 1969, OOL was the first Asian -based shipping line to transport containerized cargo across the Pacific. Consequently, the company was renamed Orient Overseas Container Line. In those days its Victory-class vessels could carry 300 TEU, a far cry from today's post-Panamax vessels.

  7. ZIM (shipping company) - Wikipedia

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    Zim container ship SS Kedma, ZIM's first ship in 1947 SS Kedma 1947 SS Shalom, a ZIM ocean liner in the 1960s Mezada Mezada Victims. Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., commonly known as ZIM (Hebrew: צים, tsim; a biblical word meaning "a fleet of ships", Numbers 24:24), is a publicly held Israeli international cargo shipping company, and one of the top 20 global carriers. [1]

  8. Refrigerated container - Wikipedia

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    A refrigerated container or reefer is an intermodal container (shipping container) used in intermodal freight transport that is capable of refrigeration for the transportation of temperature-sensitive, perishable cargo such as fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, seafood, and other similar items. While a reefer will have an integral refrigeration ...