List of largest container shipping companies

Several shipping lines are involved in intermodal freight transport as part of international trade.

List of largest container shipping companies

This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of April 2023, 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] Hanjin Shipping was also one of the biggest but it is now defunct.^[3]

Rank	Company name	Headquarters	Total TEU	Ships	Market share	Notes	Alliance
1	Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)	Switzerland   Italy	4,832,709	740	18.2%	^[Note 1]	2M
2	Maersk	Denmark	4,185,693	696	15.8%	^[Note 2]	2M
3	CMA CGM	France	3,409,776	623	12.8%	^[Note 3]	Ocean Alliance
4	COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO)	China	2,886,908	464	10.9%	^[Note 4]	Ocean Alliance
5	Hapag-Lloyd	Germany	1,798,866	246	6.8%	^[Note 5]	THE Alliance
6	Evergreen Marine Corporation	Taiwan	1,668,555	213	6.3%	^[Note 6]	Ocean Alliance
7	Ocean Network Express (ONE)	Japan	1,534,426	206	5.8%	^[Note 7]	THE Alliance
8	HMM Co. Ltd.	South Korea	816,365	75	3.1%		THE Alliance
9	Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation	Taiwan	705,614	93	2.7%		THE Alliance
10	Zim Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM)	Israel	566,935	138	2.1%
11	Wan Hai Lines	Taiwan	440,921	133	1.7%
12	Pacific International Lines (PIL)	Singapore	294,281	90	1.1%	^[Note 8]
13	Shandong International Transportation Corporation (SITC)	China	167,597	108	0.6%
14	Korea Marine Transport Corporation (KMTC)	South Korea	148,659	65	0.6%
15	Zhonggu Logistics Corporation	China	147,834	100	0.6%
16	X-Press Feeders	Singapore	143,767	91	0.5%	^[Note 9]
17	IRISL Group	Iran	136,606	29	0.5%	^[Note 10]
18	Unifeeder	Denmark	133,202	80	0.5%
19	Sea Lead Shipping	Singapore	117,550	28	0.4%
20	Sinokor Merchant Marine	South Korea	106,369	78	0.4%
21	Antong Holdings (QASC)	China	96,685	91	0.4%
22	TS Lines	Taiwan	82,271	42	0.3%
23	Global Feeder Shipping LLC	United Arab Emirates	75,446	27	0.3%
24	Swire Shipping	Singapore	70,052	35	0.3%
25	SM Line	South Korea	68,620	15	0.3%
26	Emirates Shipping Line	United Arab Emirates	68,135	16	0.3%
27	Regional Container Lines (RCL)	Thailand	67,854	34	0.3%
28	Matson	United States	64,421	29	0.2%
29	Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co.	China	62,251	75	0.2%
30	Arkas Line	Turkey	52,874	33	0.2%

Notes

1. Includes WEC Lines
2. Includes P&O Nedlloyd, Safmarine, SeaLand and Hamburg Süd
3. Includes APL, Neptune Orient Lines, ANL, Comanav, CNC Line, Delmas, Mercosul Line, and Containerships
4. Includes COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO), China Shipping Container Lines (China Shipping Group), Orient Overseas Container Line (Orient Overseas (International) Limited), Shanghai Pan Asia Shipping, New Golden Sea Shipping, and Coheung
5. Includes CP Ships, Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores (CSAV), United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), Nile Dutch Investments B.V. (NileDutch), and Deutsche Afrika-Linien/John T. Essberger (DAL/JTE)
6. Includes Italia Marittima and Uniglory Marine
7. Includes Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line)
8. Includes Advance Container Line (ACL), Pacific Direct Line (PDL), and Mariana Express Lines Ltd. (MELL)
9. Includes Consortium and X-Press Container Line
10. Includes Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, HDS Lines, Valfajre Eight Shipping Company, and Khazar Shipping Company

See also

• List of largest container ships
• List of busiest container ports
• List of freight ship companies
• Jones Act

References

1. "PublicTop100". alphaliner.axsmarine.com. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
2. "A single neopanamax acquisition is all that separates Msc and Maersk at the top of the liner rankings". www. splash247.com. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
3. "HANJIN SHIPPING". Journal of Commerce Online.