List of freight ship companies

This is a list of freighter shipping fleets.  The largest shipping companies are European and Asian.NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaika),  "Fleet Sizes of Full Container Operators"; retrieved 2012-9-5.

History
The growth of container transport fleets began in the 1950s.Inter-modal Steel Building Association (ISBA), "All About Shipping Containers" ; retrieved 2012-9-5.

List
This list is in order of size, with the largest first.  In 2009, for example, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) was the tenth in size worldwide.

This list is in a table format:
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 Rank Name Location Vessels TEUsTEU is an acronym.  TEU stands for the Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit. TEU is an inexact unit for measuring cargo capacity based on the standard container size.1Maersk Line (A. P. Moller-Maersk Group)Denmark5141,939,773 2Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)Switzerland3671,451,270 3CMA CM (Compagnie Générale Maritime)France306999,205 4Evergreen MarineTaiwan141540,163 5American President Lines (APL)Singapore128518,566 6Hapag-LloydGermany115485,104 7China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO)China142556,444 8China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL)China118434,991 9Hanjin ShippingKorea67407,102 10Nippon Yusen (NYK)Japan99398,446 

Related pages
 Containerization

References

Category:Transport lists
Category:Containers
Category:Water transport