Picture: On October 14, EVER ACT, the second largest 24,000TEU ultra-large container ship in the world, successfully passed the Suez Canal by the first voyage.
According to the latest data from Alphaliner, Evergreen Shipping ranks first among the world's container shipping companies.
data shows that Evergreen Shipping has a total of 83 handheld orders of about 686,800 TEU, accounting for 47.8% of its existing fleet, and has the largest handheld orders calculated by the number of ships. According to TEU calculations, Evergreen Shipping's handheld orders are also ranked second only after Mediterranean Shipping.
Among the top 10 integrated transport companies in the world, Mediterranean Shipping ranked second in handheld orders, but the capacity growth rate was the highest. The company has ordered a total of 54 ships, totaling 925,900 TEU, and handheld orders account for 22.1% of the existing fleet. Although Evergreen shipping has higher orders, its capacity is not as good as Mediterranean shipping, indicating that Mediterranean shipping mainly focuses on building large ships. The third largest number of orders is Dafeisteel, with a total of 51 ships of 561,000 TEUs, and handheld orders account for 18.2% of the existing fleet. Wanhai Shipping ranked fourth with 42 hand-held ships, with a total capacity of 253,400 TEU, accounting for 60.4% of its existing fleet. The fifth place is COSCO Shipping Group, which has 32 handheld orders of 585,300 TEU, accounting for 19.9% of the existing fleet. However, based on capacity, COSCO Shipping Group ranks third in the world in terms of handheld orders.
In addition, Maersk Shipping has a total of 26 hand-held orders of 257,400 TEU, accounting for 6% of the existing fleet; Japan Ocean Network Shipping (ONE) has a total of 24 hand-held orders of 321,700 TEU, accounting for 20.4% of the existing fleet; Hapag-Lloyd's hand-held orders of 22 hand-held orders of 415,100 TEU, accounting for 23.3% of the existing fleet; South Korea's HMM (formerly Hyundai Merchant Shipping) has a total of 12 hand-held orders of 161,100 TEU, accounting for 19.5% of the existing fleet.
Yangming Shipping is the lowest hand-held order among the top 10 shipping companies, with only 7 ships of 83020TEU, accounting for 13% of the existing fleet.
Alphaliner statistics show that there are currently 6,283 container ships operating, with a total capacity of 25.1303 million TEU and approximately 301.7 million deadweight tons. Among them, the total capacity of the top three integrated transport companies, Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping and Dafeipisteel, accounts for 46.1% of the global market. The 4 to 10th place are COSCO Shipping Group, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen Shipping, HMM, Yangming Shipping and Wanhai Shipping. The top seven companies have capacity exceeding 1 million TEU.
ranked 11th to 20th, namely: Star Shipping, Taiping Shipping, Koryo Shipping (KMTC), Air China (IRISL), X-Press Feeders Group, Haifeng International, Zhonggu Logistics, UniFeeder, Changjin Merchant Shipping and Dexiang Marine.
It is understood that at the beginning of this month, Evergreen Shipping also announced that it would spend US$958 million to US$1.098 billion to order 24 branch container ships in Wenchong, Huangpu. This batch of new ships will comply with the latest international environmental protection regulations and carbon emission requirements, and will be expected to be put into the Asian near-ocean line market after delivery. This is the second large-scale shipbuilding of Evergreen Shipping this year after 20 15,000 TEU ships in March. The industry pointed out that the world will soon implement new carbon emission restrictions in 2023, and Evergreen Shipping has been deployed ahead of schedule. The new ships currently ordered will be added in 2023, and the fleet will be updated in a timely manner, significantly enhancing the competitiveness of the global market in 2023, and is expected to open the gap with its competitors again.
