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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 ]
Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than ...
Companies listed own and/or operate bulk carriers, car carriers, container ships, Roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers. For a list of companies that own and operate passenger ships (cruise ships, cargo-passenger ships, and ferries), see List of passenger ship companies.
In 2001, more than 90% of world trade in non-bulk goods was transported in ISO containers. [7] In 2009, almost one quarter of the world's dry cargo was shipped by container, an estimated 125 million TEU or 1.19 billion tonnes worth of cargo. [8] The first ships designed to carry standardized load units were used in the late 18th century in England.
Depending on design requirements, some ships have extremely large internal volumes in order to serve their duties. Gross tonnage is a monotonic and 1-to-1 function of the ship's internal structural volume.
It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, [5] controlling 20% of global container capacity as at July 2024. [6] As of November 2023, MSC operates over 790 container vessels with an intake capacity of 5,505,417 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [7]
COSCO operates one of the largest civil fleets in the world, consisting of 1,114 ships as of 2017. Cosco Vancouver COSCO Kobe at Conley Terminal, Boston COSCO Glory in port at Hamburg Container ships
Largest bulk carrier in the world until 2011 [17] Scrapped at Gadani in July 2020 Ore Brasil: Valemax Singapore Vale Shipping Holding Pte. Ltd. 2011 198,980 Previously Vale Brasil: In operation Stellar Daisy South Korea VP-14 Shipping Inc 1993 148,431 Largest ship to be lost at sea [18] Sank in the South Atlantic on 31 March 2017 [18] Vale Rio ...