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Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co. China: 75,077 80 0.3% 26 Emirates Shipping Line United Arab Emirates: 72,188 14 0.3% 27 Swire Shipping Singapore: 71,023 36 0.2% 28 Matson United States: 69,235 29 0.2% 29 SM Line South Korea: 64,109 14 0.2% 30 Arkas Line Turkey: 59,465 36 0.2%
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.
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.
Hansa Carrier was a container ship. On 27 May 1990, en route from Korea to the United States , the ship encountered a storm which caused the loss of 21 40-foot cargo containers south of the Alaska Peninsula , near 48°N 161°W / 48°N 161°W / 48;
Hanjin Shipping had its own subsidiaries dedicated to ocean transportation and terminal operation and it had several branch offices in various countries. Hanjin-Senator once was the seventh largest container transportation and shipping company in the world (operations ceased February 2009).
Intermodal shipping got a huge boost in the early 1970s, when carriers won permission to quote combined rail-ocean rates. Later, non-vessel-operating common carriers won a long court battle with a US Supreme Court decision against contracts that attempted to require that union labor be used for stuffing and stripping containers at off-pier ...
B+H Ocean Carriers Ltd. is an international shipping company. The company operates seven bulk ships, seven product tankers and two chemical tankers. Based in Hamilton, Bermuda the company also has offices in Oslo, Singapore, Bristol and New York. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange.
Stellar Daisy was a single-deck capesize very large ore carrier (VLOC) with an overall length of 321.95 metres (1,056 ft 3 in) and a beam of 58 metres (190 ft 3 in). ). Fully laden, the vessel drew 20.326 metres (66 ft 8 in) of water and had a deadweight tonnage of 266,14