Several
shipping lines
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Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo:
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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
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers). Containerization is also referred as "Container Stuffing" or "Container Loading", which is the pro ...
companies as of 11 August 2022, according to ''Alphaliner'', ranked in order of the
twenty-foot equivalent unit
The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports.Rowlett, 2004. It is based on the volume of a intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box whic ...
(TEU) capacity of their fleet. In January 2022,
MSC
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overtook
Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996.
Hanjin Shipping
Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. was a South Korean integrated logistics and container transport company. Prior to its liquidation, Hanjin Shipping was South Korea's largest container line and one of the world's top ten container carriers in terms of ca ...
was also one of the biggest but it is now defunct.
Notes
See also
*
List of largest container ships
*
List of busiest container ports
This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through ...
*
Jones Act
References
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