The largest shipping companies in the world and a brief history of how they started.
These are the largest shipping companies in the world and a brief history of how they started 1. MSC (Capacity in TEUs 4,402,155) (Market percentage 17.2%) (Origin: Belgium) 2. Maersk (Capacity in TEUs: 4,229,864) (Market percentage 16.6%) (Origin: Denmark) 3. CMA CGM (Capacity in TEU 3,300,522) (Market percentage 12.9%) (Origin: France) 4. COSCO (Capacity in TEUs 2,926,022) (Market percentage 11.5%) (Origin: China) 5. Happag Lloyd (Capacity in TEU 1,746,656) (Market percentage 6.8%) (Origin: Germany) 6. Evergreen (Capacity in TEUs 1,533,410) (Market share 6.0%) (Origin: Taiwan) 7. ONE (Capacity in TEU 1,505,181) (Market percentage 5.9%) (Origin Japan) Now if we start with some history: #1 MSC. (Origin: Belgium) (Market percentage 17.2%) (Capacity in TEUs 4,402,155) The history of the MSC Group began in Brussels, Belgium in 1970, when Captain Gianluigi Aponte founded the company with just a small cargo ship: the MV Patricia. Since then, t...