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
|
5,673,709 | 800 | 19.8% | [Note 1] | 2M |
| 2 | Maersk |  Denmark
|
4,176,693 | 680 | 14.6% | [Note 2] | Gemini |
| 3 | CMA CGM |  France
|
3,619,776 | 631 | 12.6% | [Note 3] | Ocean Alliance |
| 4 | COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO) |  China
|
3,100,908 | 495 | 10.8% | [Note 4] | Ocean Alliance |
| 5 | Hapag-Lloyd |  Germany
|
1,992,866 | 271 | 7.0% | [Note 5] | Gemini |
| 6 | Ocean Network Express (ONE) |  Japan
|
1,812,426 | 234 | 6.3% | [Note 6] | THE Alliance |
| 7 | Evergreen Marine Corporation |  Taiwan
|
1,645,555 | 211 | 5.7% | [Note 7] | Ocean Alliance |
| 8 | HMM Co. Ltd. |  South Korea
|
816,365 | 70 | 3.1% | THE Alliance | |
| 9 | Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation | Taiwan
|
708,614 | 94 | 2.7% | THE Alliance | |
| 10 | Zim Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM) |  Israel
|
640,935 | 127 | 2.1% | ||
| 11 | Wan Hai Lines | Taiwan
|
476,921 | 117 | 1.7% | ||
| 12 | Pacific International Lines (PIL) |  Singapore
|
294,281 | 88 | 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
- ^ Includes WEC Lines
- ^ Includes P&O Nedlloyd, Safmarine, SeaLand and Hamburg Süd
- ^ Includes APL, Neptune Orient Lines, ANL, Comanav, CNC Line, Delmas, Mercosul Line, and Containerships
- ^ 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
- ^ 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)
- ^ Includes Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line)
- ^ Includes Italia Marittima and Uniglory Marine
- ^ Includes Advance Container Line (ACL), Pacific Direct Line (PDL), and Mariana Express Lines Ltd. (MELL)
- ^ Includes Consortium and X-Press Container Line
- ^ Includes Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, HDS Lines, Valfajre Eight Shipping Company, and Khazar Shipping Company