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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 ...
List of largest container shipping companies. 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.
MSC Cruises ( Italian: MSC Crociere) is a Swiss-Italian global cruise line based in Geneva, with operations offices in Naples, Genoa and Venice. It was founded in 1970 in Naples, Italy, as part of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). In addition to being the world's largest privately held cruise company, employing about 23,500 people ...
MSC Aries. On 13 April 2024, Iran seized MSC Aries, a Portuguese - registered and Madeira-flagged container ship owned by Gortal Shipping and leased to Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The ship, with a crew of 25 people, was boarded by Iranian commandos in the Strait of Hormuz, within international waters off the coast of the United Arab ...
Vessel Finder. Retrieved 12 January 2024. ^ "MSC Tessa breaks the record for the world's largest container ship with a capacity of 24,116 TEU". www.phaata.com. Retrieved 2 November 2022. ^ "MSC TESSA, Container Ship - Details and current position - IMO 9930038 - VesselFinder". www.vesselfinder.com. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
The long-range identification and tracking ( LRIT) of ships was established as an international system on 19 May 2006 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as resolution MSC.202 (81). [1] This resolution amends Chapter V of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), regulation 19-1 and binds all governments ...
Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of Maersk, a Danish business conglomerate.Founded in 1928, it is the world's second largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries.
MSC Oscar was the subject of an episode of the documentary television program Mighty Ships, [8] the second episode of the tenth series. Produced by a Canadian company, Exploration Production Inc., the program was first telecast in Canada on 10 December 2017. [9] The series is aired in other countries as well.