MSC Mediterranean Delivery Firm solidified its place because the world’s largest transport line in 2023 with the addition of greater than 1 million TEUs (twenty-foot equal containers), in keeping with new numbers launched by Alphaliner.
MSC overtook Maersk to grow to be the world’s largest transport line in early 2022. Since then, the Geneva-based firm’s industry-leading fleet enlargement has performed a key position in widening the hole over second-place Maersk, which really skilled a fleet discount of 112,500 TEUs in 2023, representing discount of two.7%, Alphaliner numbers present.
MSC alternatively added simply over 1 million TEUs of capability over the past twelve months because of the supply of fourteen 24,000-TEU “megamax” ships, in addition to twenty-six neo-panamax ships ranging in capability from 15,250-16,550 TEU and the addition of secondhand ships.
This enlargement allowed MSC to extend its lead within the capability rankings over Maersk by 1.12 million TEUs over the previous 12 months. By the top of 2023, MSC’s fleet consisted of 783 mobile ships representing 5.6 million TEUs, representing a powerful progress of twenty-two% which is able to solely proceed with 122 ships nonetheless on order, representing 1.47 million TEUs, in keeping with Alphaliner.
Notably, MSC and Maersk in January 2023 introduced plans to finish their vessel sharing alliance, often known as 2M, ranging from January 2025. Whereas MSC is quickly increasing its fleet measurement, Maersk is launched into an integrator technique and since 2021 has has had a coverage of solely ordering new vessels that may function on inexperienced fuels.
To place MSC’s progress in perspective, its the general fleet enlargement accounted for 47.4% of the full fleet progress in 2023, in keeping with Alphaliner.
As of January 1, 2024, the mobile container fleet comprised 5,977 ships with a complete capability of 28.13 million TEUs representing a year-on-year internet improve of 271 ships and a pair of.14 million TEUs, or 8.2%, Alphaliner numbers present.
Whereas Maersk’s fleet-size shrunk, the world’s third-largest transport line CMA CGM expanded its fleet by 5.5% in 2023. CMA CGM is now poised to overhaul Maersk as the worldwide quantity two transport line with virtually 1.2 million TEUs of latest capability on order.
Additionally in 2023, Ocean Community Categorical (ONE) regained its rating because the sixth-largest transport line, surpassing Evergreen. ONE’s fleet progress of 272,500 TEU was the second largest behind MSC, whereas Evergreen confronted a fleet discount of 1%. Nevertheless, Evergreen’s massive order e-book might probably assist it overtake ONE once more.
Moreover, ZIM, Wan Hai, and Hapag-Lloyd all noticed quicker fleet progress in 2023 as a consequence of their newbuilding packages, with ZIM probably in place to overhaul Yang Ming within the rankings listing sooner or later.
