MSC and Maersk's capacity gap widens
According to data released by Alphaliner, as of January 28, 2022, the total number of container ships in operation worldwide reached 6,320, an increase of 2 from the beginning of January, with a total global capacity of 25,385,045 TEU, an increase of 39,930 TEU from the beginning of January, and a total of 304,412,104 deadweight tons of operating ships.
Former 20 large groups, in the direction of expulsion from the company, compared to the beginning of January, and small changes.
Among them, the star navigation power transcendental Wan Hai line, the two-way expulsion exchange, the 10th person in the division, the 11th person in the sum. X-Press Feeders Group 15th place, Japanese UniFeeder Exclusion Exchange, UniFeeder Exclusion 17th. Other than that, the company’s name is not changed.
In terms of specific capacity, the CMA CGM Group has the largest increase in total capacity. Compared with the beginning of January, its total capacity increased by 27,969TEU to 3,195,891TEU, and the number of operating vessels increased by 2, from 567 at the beginning of January to 569.
MSC’s total shipping capacity increased by 24,585TEU to 4,309,313TEU, and the total number of vessels in operation was 654, an increase of 9 vessels from the beginning of January. As Maersk’s total shipping capacity decreased by 3,391TEU, the gap between the two was further widened.
X-Press Feeders Group’s total capacity increased by 8,989TEU to 148,620TEU, with 96 vessels in operation, an increase of 6 from the beginning of January.
The liner company with the largest reduction in capacity was Ocean Connectivity, whose total capacity decreased by 8,179TEU to 1,534,082TEU compared with the beginning of January, although the number of vessels in operation remained unchanged at 210.
Next is COSCO Shipping, with a total capacity of 2,924,727TEU, a decrease of 8,052TEU from the beginning of January, and the number of vessels in operation decreased by 4 to 475 from the beginning of January.
The total shipping capacity of Wanhai Shipping decreased by 7,346TEU to 412,213TEU compared with the beginning of January, and the number of vessels in operation decreased by 2 to 145.