THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS


Operator Market Share Total Owned Chartered
    TEU Ships TEU Ships TEU Ships
APM-Maersk 16.1% 1,874,502 524 975,054 184 899,448 340
MSC 10.5% 1,217,013 370 691,334 212 525,679 158
CMA CGM 7.4% 864,669 360 267,921 87 596,748 273
Evergreen 5.3% 618,458 175 376,331 107 242,127 68
Hapag-Lloyd 4.2% 487,283 139 247,831 60 239,452 79
China Shipping 3.8% 437,183 141 251,192 87 185,991 54
Cosco 3.6% 420,410 139 222,437 93 197,973 46
APL 3.4% 400,865 122 139,690 38 261,175 84
NYK 3.2% 375,949 125 229,333 48 146,616 77
OOCL 2.9% 343,228 81 195,759 34 147,469 47
Total Top 10 60.4% 7,039,560 2,276 3,596,882 950 3,442,678 1,226
Total Top 50 91.1% 10,310,241 3,936 5,134,563 1,652 5,475,678 2,284

Source: Journal of Commerce.

World's Largest Maritime Container Shipping Operators, 2007

The global container shipping business has a high level of concentration with the top 10 operators accounting for more than 60% of the total capacity.