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Hapag and NDL continued to compete until they established a joint-venture container line. The "Hapag-Lloyd Container Line", founded in 1967 and operating from 1968 onward, was established to share the huge investments related to the containerisation of the fleets. The two companies finally merged on 1 September 1970, under the name Hapag-Lloyd. [4]
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 cargo capacity, [ 5] controlling ...
Tióng-êng Hái-ūn. Evergreen Marine Corporation ( Chinese: 長榮海運; pinyin: Chángróng Hǎiyùn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tióng-êng Hái-ūn) is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company that is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. [ 5] With over 150 container ships, it is part of the Evergreen Group ...
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]
Wan Hai Lines, Ltd. (Chinese: 萬海航運股份有限公司; pinyin: Wàn Hǎi Hángyùn Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Taiwanese shipping company founded in 1965. Since then, it has become one of the largest companies in the container shipping industry, with a fleet of 142 vessels and a carrying capacity of 430,854 TEUs as of January 2023.
Yang Ming container ship YM People in the port of Keelung in Taiwan Yang Ming headquarters sign. Along with Hapag-Lloyd, HMM Co Ltd, and Ocean Network Express, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation is a member of THE Alliance. THE Alliance is intended to provide 34 services, directly calling at 81 different ports on a monthly basis.
ISO 6346. ISO 6346 is an international standard covering the coding, identification and marking of intermodal (shipping) containers used within containerized intermodal freight transport by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [ 1] The standard establishes a visual identification system for every container that includes a ...
In August 2021, the record for most containers loaded onto a single ship is held by the Ever Ace, which carried a total of 21,710 TEU of containers from Yantian to Europe. [ 2] As of January 2024, the record for the largest container ship is held by MSC 's Irina -class with the capacity of 24,346 TEU.