7 Largest Container Shipping Companies in the World

Container shipping is one of the most important means of cargo transportation.

Capacity of a company is usually determined by how Many Twenty Foot containers its ship can carry (Twenty foot Equivalnt Unit or TEU)

MSC is the biggest shipping company in the world, with a capacity of around 5,614,057 TEU.

Second is APM-Maersk with a fleet of over 675 container ships with a capacity of around 4,117,136 TEU.

France’s leading container shipping company, CMA-CGM, is the 3rd largest company in TEU capacity.

COSCO operates in more than 40 countries and has a fleet of around 490 container ships.

Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd has 266 ships and is one of the most reputed shipping companies.

ONE was founded in 2017 and has 231 vessels with a container carrying capacity of 1,799,818 TEU.

Evergreen Line has an operational capacity of 211 container ships and a container carrying capacity of 1,644,883 TEU.