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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
 Maersk Line continues to lead the global container shipping trade, with a market share of 16.4%, according to the latest statistics as produced on a daily basis by Paris-based AXS Marine. As of the 20th of June, there were 6,004 ships active on liner trades, for 12,406,864 TEU and 169,671,755 TDW. To the above figures are included 4,485 fully cellular ships for 11,648,037
TEU. The total existing cellular fleet (all sizes / all positions)
stands at 4,506 ships for 11,678,934 TEU. There are 11 cellular ships
over 1,000 TEU for 22,630 TEU which are inactive (either awaiting
employment or laid up or damaged).
According to data from AXS Marine, APM-Maersk tops the list of
container liners, controlling, or operating 546 ships with a total
capacity of 2,028,713 TEUs. The company’s orderbook includes 82 ships
of 396,585 TEUs, which represents 19.5% of the Maersk’s capacity in
terms of TEUs. Also, the company charters 351 out of 546 ships. The
second largest liner is Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC), which has a
fleet of 401 ships of 1,303,580 TEUs. MSC owns 220 of these 401, while
the remaining 181 are chartered. As for its orderbook it stands at 54
vessels with a total capacity of 598,693 TEUs, i.e. 45.9% of its
current capacity.
But the most aggressive company in the newbuilding scene appears to be
China’s Cosco Container Lines, with has on order 73 ships of 527,803
TEUs, which represents 115.9% of its current capacity, standing at
455,541 TEUs, divided into 148 ships, 98 of which are owned, while the
rest are chartered. Cosco is currently the sixth largest liner in the
world.
The rest of the first five places are covered by CMA-CGM Group, which
comes in third place (391 ships, 933,036 TEUs), Evergreen Line (180
ships, 630,692 TEUs) and Hapag-Lloyd (140 ships, 507,216 TEUs). Out of
the first five liners, CMA-CGM has the most aggressive expansion plan
with 628,467 TEUs from 77 ships expected to be delivered from
shipyards. This figure is 67.4% of its current capacity.
Nikos Roussanoglou, Hellenic Shipping News
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