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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 container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).. Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport.
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 ]
MSC Apolline: Gülsün-class container ship: Container ship: 399.8 m (1,312 ft) 61.0 m (200.1 ft) 16.5 m (54 ft) 228,786 In service Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Mediterranean Shipping Company [32] MSC Amelia: In service MSC Diletta: In service MSC Michelle: In service MSC Allegra: In service MSC Mina: 228,741: In service [33] MSC ...
Yemen's Houthis have launched attacks on three ships in the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Sea, the Iran-aligned group's military spokesman Yahya Sarea said on Friday. The attacks are the ...
The Gülsün class is a series of container ships built for Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The largest ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 23,756 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). They were the largest container ships in the world when they were launched in 2019, surpassing OOCL Hong Kong (21,413 TEU).
A US-sanctioned Russian cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea overnight after an explosion ripped through the engine room, Russia’s foreign ministry confirmed.. Two members of the Ursa Major ...
The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major is seen in 2023. (Yoruk Isik/Reuters/File) The crisis center of the Russian Foreign Ministry said the vessel, Ursa Major, sank south of Spain after a blast in the ...