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Sensitive increase of the ability to the fleets of portacontainer of the first twenty companies of the line field
In a year the consistency of the fleet of Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk is gone up to 604 ships for an ability pairs almost 2,9 million teu (+12%)
January 9, 2015
In the 2014 first 20 world-wide companies of navigation of the field of the line transport, with the exception of four, the total ability to transport of own fleets of portacontainer has considerably increased. According to the data I am diffused today by the society of Alphaliner advising, on January 1°, 2015 the consistency of the fleet of portacontenitori of Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk, world leader of the field, was of 604 ships for an ability total of cargo pairs almost 2,9 million teu, with an increase of +12% regarding almost 2,6 million teu on January 1°, 2014 that it is generated by the breaking in fleet of nine portacontainer Triple of the unitary ability to 18.340 teu and of 19 portacontainer taken rental. Sensitive also the increase of the ability to the fleets of second and the third main company of the line section, respective the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and the French CMA CGM, that they have now of fleets formed from 497 ships for an ability to 2,5 million teu (+7%) and from 446 ships for an ability to beyond 1,6 million teu (+9%). The fourth company in ranking, the Hapag-Lloyd German who recently has inglobato the activities in the field of the container of Chilean CSAV ( on 2 December 2014), it has instead recorded an light decrease of the ability ability to own fleet that is come down to 186 ships for a cargo ability pairs to 980 thousand teu (- 2%). Down also the ability to the fleets of the South Korean Hanjin Shipping (- 3%) and of the APL of group NOL of Singapore (- 12%), while the consistency of the ability to the fleet of Israeli ZIM has remained unchanged.
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