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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 ]
Large investments were made in intermodal freight projects. An example was the US$740 million Port of Oakland intermodal rail facility begun in the late 1980s. [2] [3] Since 1984, a mechanism for intermodal shipping known as double-stack rail transport has become increasingly common. Rising to the rate of nearly 70% of the United States ...
The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year. The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers , with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number ...
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport. Container ships are also subject to certain limitations in size. Primarily ...
Pacer International, also known as Pacer Stacktrain, is the former name of a major North American provider of intermodal services, was owned by XPO, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) which later sold it in 2022 to STG Logistics.
Operating about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km) of track, [1] it is the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries , two holding companies that controlled railroads ...
C.H. Robinson’s entrance into the trucking business came after the Federal Highway Act of 1956 and expanded U.S. interstate commerce. [11] C.H. Robinson and other shippers had previously relied on trains to transport goods.
Hub Group, Inc. is a transportation and logistics management company in North America. A publicly traded company with over $5 billion in revenue, [3] Hub Group was founded in 1971 by Phillip Yeager, and is currently run by his grandson, Phillip D. Yeager.