When you’re in a shop, do you ever wonder where all those products are made and how they were transported? Be it toys from China, your Iphone or bananas from Equador. At a certain stage these products were put in a container. One might say that containerization is one of the pillars of globalization, as virtually everything is shipped from A to B. Some companies make a big living out of container shipping. We’ve found out which companies are the largest container shipping companies in the world! Measured in Twenty Foot Equivalent (TEU) or the size of a standardized container.
Top 10 largest container shipping companies
- MOL, Tokyo, Japan – 507,515 TEU
- CSCL, Shanghai, China – 562,869 TEU
- APL (American Presidents Line), Singapore – 576,551 TEU
- Hanjin Shipping, Seoul, South Korea – 578,001 TEU
- Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg, Germany – 637,290 TEU
- Cosco Container, Beijjing, China – 719,942 TEU
- Evergreen Marine, Luzhu, Taiwan – 727,233 TEU
- CMA CGM Group, Marseille, France – 1,377,617 TEU
- Mediterranean Shg Company, Geneva, Switzerland – 2,176,116 TEU
- APM-Maersk, Copenhagen, Denmark – 2,578,662 TEU
Source: Alphaliner
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