Gennaio 2010
The active capacity of the world's 20 largest ocean container carriers shrunk by 2.4 percent over the past year, but there was relatively little change in their global market shares. The top 20 lines actually boosted their combined fleets by 1.6 percent in the year to Jan. 1, 2010, but their effective capacity declined as they idled more vessels in response to lower cargo volume, according to Alphaliner, the Paris-based container shipping consultant.
The combined capacity of the top 20 reached 10.81 million 20-foot equivalent units on Jan. 1, 2010, compared with 10.63 million TEUs a year ago.
The leading carriers idled capacity currently stands at 743,000 TEUs, equivalent to 6.9 percent of their operating fleet. This is more than double the 328,000 TEUs of idled capacity, or some 3.1 percent of the fleet, on Jan. 1, 2009.
There were no new entrants to Alphaliner's Top 20 rankings although as a group their share of total liner shipping capacity slipped from 81.6 percent to 79.2 percent over the year.
Danish carrier Maersk Line retained its overall lead with capacity of 2,045,183 TEUs, despite its global market share shrinking from 15.6 percent to 15 percent.
Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co. remained in second place with 1,488,196 TEUs and a 10.9 percent market share, followed by France's CMA CGM with a 7.6 percent market share and capacity of 1,031,303 TEUs.
APL, a unit of Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines, jumped from seventh to fifth, overtaking German carrier Hapag-Lloyd and China's COSCO Container Line. Hanjin of South Korea returned to ninth place after dropping out of the top ten in 2008.
There are 5,892 ships active in the liner trades with a combined capacity of 13,642,270 TEUs, according to Alphaliner.
This includes 4,709 fully cellular vessels with a total capacity of 13,048,701 TEUs.
Source: Journal of Commerce
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