Since economic recession began spreading around the world in 2008, the ocean freight industry has been in a period of marked transition. The rise and fall of global economies has precipitated a similar effect as global steamship lines try to balance capacity to demand—all while seeking rate stability and reducing costs.
1.ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE (ACL)
800-ACL-1235
Parent Company: Grimaldi Group
Fleet Size: Five vessels operate in the core North Atlantic service, and various vessels are time-chartered to the Grimaldi Group.
Since 1967, ACL has been a specialized transatlantic carrier of containers, project and oversized cargo, heavy equipment, and vehicles, with the world's largest combination roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) containerships (CONROs). Headquartered in Westfield, N.J., with offices throughout Europe and North America, ACL provides five weekly transatlantic sailings, and markets direct CONRO service between the United States and West Africa under its parent company, Grimaldi Lines. The company also offers service for non-containerized cargo from North America to the Mediterranean, Middle East, South Africa, Australia, and Asia.
2.APL
800-999-7733
Parent Company: NOL Group
Sister Company (Logistics): APL Logistics
Fleet Size: 132 vessels
APL is a global container shipping company offering more than 80 weekly services and 500 calls at more than 140 ports worldwide. It combines intermodal operations with information technology and e-commerce to provide shippers with seamless and integrated transportation solutions. APL is a unit of Singapore-based global shipping and logistics company Neptune Orient Lines.
3.BAHRI GENERAL CARGO
410-625-7000
Parent Company: The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri)
Fleet Size: Six vessels by the end of 2014
Formed in 1978, The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri), Saudi Arabia's first national carrier, offers ocean transportation services to meet the world's changing needs. The company specializes in project cargo, breakbulk, RoRo, automobiles, and containers. It contracted six new RoRo/container vessels in 2011—with three already in service—to provide increased frequency and better transit times.
888-712-7811
Parent Company: China Shipping Group Company
Fleet Size: 155 vessels
China Shipping offers container transportation and related services including storage, transshipment, Customs arrival manifest filing, and intermodal on-carriage. Its 620,000-TEU fleet calls 12 China base ports and most river ports along the Yangtze River, the Pearl River, and their branches, providing fast, safe, economical containerized freight transportation. A total of more than 40 international routes round out the line's current service profile.
5.CMA CGM
757-961-2100
Logistics Division: CMA CGM Logistics
Fleet Size: 414 vessels
CMA CGM, founded in 1978 by Jacques R. Saadé, provides regular services to 400 ports on more than 170 main shipping lines around the world. With a presence on all continents, and in 150 countries through its network of 650 agencies, CMA CGM employs 18,000 people and transports 10.5 million TEUs annually. The group offers a complete range of activities, including transport by sea, river, and rail, and operates facilities in port—as well as logistics on land—to guarantee high-quality, door-to-door services. CMA CGM has also been investing in rail, inland waterway, and road haulage services and strategic shipping terminals worldwide.
800-242-7354
Parent Company: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO)
Fleet Size: 120 vessels
COSCO maintains 85 representative offices in 49 countries around the world, and operations agencies in 1,000 cities in 160 countries. Cargo handling capabilities include 20-foot and 40-foot dry containers, refrigerated containers, flat-racks, open tops, high cube, and other specialized equipment. Routes and scheduling are designed for rapid and cost-efficient service worldwide.
7.CROWLEY
800-CROWLEY
Parent Company: Crowley Maritime Corporation
Logistics Division: Crowley Logistics
Fleet Size: More than 200 vessels
Crowley Maritime Corporation, a privately held family- and employee-owned company established in 1892, provides marine solutions, and transportation and logistics services in domestic and international markets. Services include cargo shipments by containers and trailers; refrigerated and speed-to-market shipping; breakbulk, heavy lift, and over-dimensional items; and rolling stock such as cars, trucks, buses, and construction equipment, all with company-owned specialty equipment and top-quality Lift-on/Lift-off (LoLo) and RoRo vessels.
201-761-3000
Parent Company: Evergreen Group
Logistics Division: Evergreen Shipping Agency (America)
Fleet Size: 150 vessels
Taiwan-based Evergreen was founded in 1968 by Group Chairman Dr. Yung-fa Chang, and commenced full container liner services in 1975. It has developed into a global carrier, operating a 560,000-TEU-capacity fleet and serving six continents.
973-775-5300
Parent Company: The Oetker Group
Fleet Size: 174 vessels
Hamburg Süd specializes in containerized temperature-sensitive cargo shipping. Company services link North America, South America, Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia, India, Pakistan, and Australia/New Zealand.
10. HANJIN SHIPPING
201-291-4600
Parent Company: Hanjin Shipping Holdings
Fleet Size: 200 vessels
Hanjin Shipping, Korea's largest container carrier, operates 60 liner and tramper services around the globe, transporting more than 100 million tons of cargo annually. With 6,000 employees in 60 different countries and 230 branch offices, Hanjin Shipping is building its global logistics network, which is also supported by the company's 13 dedicated terminals at the world's major hub ports and six inland logistics bases.
11.HAPAG-LLOYD
732-562-1800
Parent Company: The Albert Ballin consortium and TUI AG
Fleet Size: 150 vessels
Hapag-Lloyd connects all major ports worldwide via 93 liner services—including U.S. flag services. The carrier operates 330 offices in 114 countries, and offers a container stock of more than one million TEUs of all types, including one of the largest reefer fleets in the industry.
877-678-7447
Parent Company: Horizon Lines Inc.
Logistics Division: Horizon Logistics LLC
Fleet Size: 13 vessels
Horizon Lines is a domestic ocean shipping and integrated logistics company comprised of two primary operating subsidiaries. Horizon Lines LLC operates a fleet of 13 U.S.-flag containerships and five port terminals linking the continental United States with Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Horizon Logistics LLC offers customized logistics solutions to shippers from a suite of transportation and distribution management services, information technology developed by Horizon Services Group, and intermodal trucking and warehousing services provided by Sea-Logix.
Logistics Division: Hyundai Glovis, specializing in auto logistics
Fleet Size: 75 vessels
HMM is an integrated logistics company, operating 75 vessels and a global business network serving more than 100 ports of call worldwide.
14.INTERMARINE
800-229-8701
Parent Company: Intermarine LLC
Fleet Size: 30 vessels
Houston-based Intermarine provides worldwide ocean transport and inland heavy-haul services for breakbulk, specialized project, and heavy-lift cargo. The company operates offices worldwide.
804-560-3600
Parent Company: Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd.
Fleet Size: 449 vessels
In North America, K Line offers multiple fixed-day sailings between the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and the Pacific Rim, and five all-water services between the U.S. East Coast and the Far East via the Panama Canal, as well as weekly fixed-day services between Europe and the North American East Coast and between India/Pakistan and the North American East Coast.
16. MAERSK LINE
973-514-5000
Parent Company: A.P. Moller—Maersk Group
Fleet Size: 17 vessels
Matson's transportation offerings span the globe from Shanghai to Savannah, and encompass everything from providing a vital lifeline to the island economies of Hawaii, Guam, and Micronesia to offering a premium, expedited service from China to southern California.
800-449-7575
Parent Company: MOL Ltd. (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines)
Consolidation Division: MOL Consolidation Services Ltd.
Logistics Division: MOL Logistics (U.S.A.) Inc.
Fleet Size: 922 vessels, including 114 containerships
MOL (America) Inc., MOL's wholly owned liner subsidiary in North America, employs approximately 400 transportation professionals in 12 sales offices throughout the United States. Founded in 1884, MOL's business diversity makes it one of the world's most financially solvent transportation companies.
212-764-4800
Fleet Size: 460 vessels
Founded in 1970, privately owned shipping line MSC operates 460 container vessels, with an intake capacity of more than 2.3 million TEUs. MSC serves six continents, with scheduled liner services calling 316 ports through 200 direct and combined weekly liner services. The company offers worldwide coverage, allowing the rapid movement of goods through dedicated transhipment hubs and swift connections as on-carriage services.
19.NYK LINE
201-330-3000
Parent Company: Nippon
Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
Logistics Company: Yusen
Logistics Co. Ltd. (YLK)
Fleet Size: 846
major ocean vessels, including 126 containerships (includes
semi-containerships)
Founded in 1885, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki
Kaisha (NYK Line) is a comprehensive global logistics group offering ocean,
land, and air transportation services that draw on fleets of specialized
vessels, trucks, warehouses, and aircraft.
20. OOCL
888-388-OOCL
Parent Company: Orient
Overseas (International) Ltd.
Logistics Division: OOCL
Logistics Inc.
Fleet Size: 100
vessels
As one of Hong Kong's most recognized
global brands, OOCL provides shippers with fully integrated logistics and
containerized transportation services, with a network that encompasses Asia,
Europe, North America, and Australasia.
866-866-4723
Parent Company: A.P.
Moller-Maersk Group
Fleet Size: Safmarine's
vessel fleet is managed by Maersk Line.
Shipping line Safmarine offers a
worldwide container shipping network, specializing in transporting cargo to and
from Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent.
22. TRAILER BRIDGE
800-554-1589
Parent Company: Trailer
Bridge Inc.
Fleet Size: Seven
vessels
Trailer Bridge provides multiple weekly
U.S. flag sailings between Jacksonville, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico;
weekly sailings between Jacksonville and the Dominican Republic; and weekly
inter-island service between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Its fleet
of primarily 53-foot by 102-inch-wide high-cube equipment provides door-to-port
service.
908-272-0050
Fleet Size: 54
vessels
UASC is the largest ocean carrier of
dry cargo to the Middle East. Maintaining a commitment to serve the Arabian
Gulf, UASC offers a wide scope of services to the Arabian Gulf/Red Sea and
Indian Sub-Continent regions.
201-222-8899
Parent Company: Yang
Ming Marine Transport Corporation
Subsidiary Companies: Kuang
Ming Shipping Corporation, Yes Logistics Corporation, Kao
Ming Container Terminal Corporation
Fleet Size: 88
vessels
Established in 1972, Yang Ming operates
a fleet of 88 vessels with a 386,000-TEU operating capacity.
757-228-1300
Fleet Size: 100
vessels
Established in 1945, ZIM's network of
global shipping services covers all major international trade routes,
complemented by an extensive array of regional shipping lines, connected by 10
major hubs.
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