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Mediterranean Shipping Company was founded in Naples in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship, Patricia, followed by Rafaela, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and Somalia. The line subsequently expanded through the purchase of second-hand cargo ships.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
Mediterranean Shipping Company MSC Orion: 3029 9857157 22 Jan 2020 In service [4] MSC Aries: 3030 9857169 9 Mar 2020 In service [5] MSC Virgo: 3031 9857171 8 Jun 2020 In service [6] MSC Auriga: 3032 9857183 15 Jul 2020 In service [7] Ocean Network Express Zenith Lumos: 3033 9864215 21 Sep 2020 In service [8] Zephyr Lumos: 3034 9864227 6 Jan ...
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Madrid Express (originally MSC Fabiola) is a container ship built for the Hamburg based Peter Döhle Schiffahrtsgesellschaft by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ship was initially chartered by the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) as the MSC Fabiola. From 2019 onwards the ship was chartered to Hapag-Lloyd as the Madrid Express.
MSC Zoe is an Olympic-class container ship built by Hanwha Ocean and operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company. [1] MSC Zoe was one of the largest container ships in the world when built in 2015. [5] [6] It is the third of a series of ships built for MSC, after MSC Oscar and MSC Oliver. [7]
Messina Line's fleet mainly includes ConRO vessels, able to carry containers on weather deck, and roll-on/roll-off cargo under deck, loaded via quarter stern ramp.. The main services offered are intra Mediterranean, [2] and Europe to East, South and West Africa and Middle East, plus a number of further destinations reached via transhipment.
MSC Gülsün, at the time of her launch in 2019, was the world's largest container ship. Built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, she is almost 62 metres (203 ft 5 in) wide and 400 metres (1,312 ft 4 in) long.