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Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A, branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Switzerland since 1978. [5] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, [6] controlling about 19.7 ...
CMA CGM is a French shipping and logistics company founded in 1978 by Jacques Saadé. [7] The name is an acronym of two predecessor companies, Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement ( CMA) and Compagnie Générale Maritime ( CGM ), translating as "Maritime Freighting Company" and "General Maritime Company", respectively.
Company name Headquarters Total TEU Ships Market share Notes Alliance 1 Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Switzerland: 5,705,424 801 19.9% 2M 2 Maersk Denmark: 4,193,392 685 14.6% 2M (until February 2025) Gemini (since March 2025) 3 CMA CGM France: 3,635,418 634 12.7% Ocean Alliance 4 COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO) China
MSC Oscar takes her name from the son of Diego Aponte, the president and chief executive of owner Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). Construction. MSC Oscar was built by Daewoo in South Korea for US$140 million. Number of containers. The ship was first planned for 18,400 TEU. Upon completion of construction the capacity was 19,224 TEU ...
Occupation (s) Founder, Mediterranean Shipping Company. Spouse. Rafaela Diamant. Children. 2. Gianluigi Aponte ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒanluˈiːdʒi aˈponte]; born 27 June 1940) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).
MSC Daniela is the lead ship of her class of container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company that at 366 metres (1,200 ft 9 in) is one of the largest container ships of the world, with a twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) cargo capacity of 14,000 containers. The building of MSC Daniela was started on 1 July 2006 and finished at the ...
SNAV. Categories: Shipping companies of Switzerland. Port operating companies. Companies based in Geneva. Transport companies established in 1970. Ro-ro shipping companies. Multinational companies headquartered in Switzerland. Container shipping companies.
The giant ship shares the title with its sister vessel, the MSC Irina. Both ships have a gross tonnage of more than 238,000 tonnes. The MSC Loreto docked at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk (Joe ...