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. In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. Hanjin Shipping was also one of the biggest but it is now defunct.
| Rank | Company name | Headquarters | Total TEU |
Ships | Market share |
Notes | Alliance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) |
Switzerland Italy |
4,832,709 | 740 | 18.2% | 2M | |
| 2 | Maersk | Denmark | 4,185,693 | 696 | 15.8% | 2M | |
| 3 | CMA CGM | France | 3,409,776 | 623 | 12.8% | Ocean Alliance | |
| 4 | COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO) | China | 2,886,908 | 464 | 10.9% | Ocean Alliance | |
| 5 | Hapag-Lloyd | Germany | 1,798,866 | 246 | 6.8% | THE Alliance | |
| 6 | Evergreen Marine Corporation | Taiwan | 1,668,555 | 213 | 6.3% | Ocean Alliance | |
| 7 | Ocean Network Express (ONE) | Japan | 1,534,426 | 206 | 5.8% | 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% | ||
| 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% | ||
| 17 | IRISL Group | Iran | 136,606 | 29 | 0.5% | ||
| 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% |