Sea Carrier volumes and market shares in 2008

One third of total volume is controlled by the top 3 sea carriers

The global market share of the three world leading lines, Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM, has grown from 32.1% to 34.1% in terms of TEU capacity during the year 2007, according to the latest figures produced by AXS-Alphaliner. Taking by comparison the figures at 1st January 2000, the three leading lines at the time, Maersk Sealand, Evergreen and P&O Nedlloyd, had a combined market share of 23.7%.

However, the growth in 2007 has been far from being equally shared by the three leading lines, as Maersk Line continued to lose ground while MSC and CMA CGM continued to strengthen their positions, as reflected in the below table and graph.

Market Share progression on 24 months – Jan 2006-Jan 2008

		Jan 06	Jan 07	Jan 08
1	Maersk Line	18,2%	16,8%	16,1%
2	MSC	8,6%	9,8%	10,4%
3	CMA CGM Group	5,6%	6,5%	7,6%
All three		32,4%	33,2%	34,1%

Quite remarkably, MSC and CMA CGM are among the very few carriers which are family businesses and thus do not have to bow to shareholder pressure. They are also the best placed to still increase their market share, with huge orderbooks dwarfing by far those of rivals.

TOP 50 Sea Carriers

		Total		Owned		Chartered			Orderbook
Rnk	Operator	TEU	Ships	TEU	Ships	TEU	Ships	% Chart	TEU	Ships	% existing
1	APM-Maersk	2 003 096	549	1 052 053	194	951 043	355	47.5%	330 121	72	16.5%
2	Mediterranean Shg Co	1 285 284	393	727 669	217	557 615	176	43.4%	578 070	54	45.0%
3	CMA CGM Group	929 324	387	287 335	91	641 989	296	69.1%	629 667	75	67.8%
4	Evergreen Line	628 403	179	363 425	102	264 978	77	42.2%	108 596	10	17.3%
5	Hapag-Lloyd	506 801	140	265 331	62	241 470	78	47.6%	122 500	14	24.2%
6	COSCO Container L.	453 074	145	252 411	96	200 663	49	44.3%	528 432	74	116.6%
7	APL	426 792	126	134 796	37	291 996	89	68.4%	234 146	33	54.9%
8	CSCL	420 940	133	253 986	84	166 954	49	39.7%	234 335	34	55.7%
9	NYK	408 224	121	254 672	50	153 552	71	37.6%	216 690	39	53.1%
10	MOL	367 281	116	162 186	36	205 095	80	55.8%	202 037	36	55.0%
11	Hanjin / Senator	360 387	86	126 821	24	233 566	62	64.8%	314 611	40	87.3%
12	OOCL	358 563	85	209 493	37	149 070	48	41.6%	129 632	20	36.2%
13	K Line	307 932	93	169 306	34	138 626	59	45.0%	175 878	36	57.1%
14	Zim	294 353	115	129 307	40	165 046	75	56.1%	299 230	43	101.7%
15	Yang Ming Line	283 499	83	181 025	52	102 474	31	36.1%	176 232	29	62.2%
16	Hamburg Süd Group	278 927	115	116 214	38	162 713	77	58.3%	193 676	38	69.4%
17	CSAV Group	278 113	93	21 208	4	256 905	89	92.4%	146 467	20	52.7%
18	Hyundai M.M.	240 811	53	92 001	17	148 810	36	61.8%	160 082	20	66.5%
19	PIL (Pacific Int. Line)	180 520	115	103 462	72	77 058	43	42.7%	92 047	27	51.0%
20	Wan Hai Lines	143 157	83	101 237	52	41 920	31	29.3%	54 134	20	37.8%
21	UASC	119 971	43	84 094	28	35 877	15	29.9%	68 622	13	57.2%
22	MISC Berhad	92 970	30	40 151	15	52 819	15	56.8%
23	IRIS Lines	78 004	59	59 478	44	18 526	15	23.8%	73 602	27	94.4%
24	RCL (Regional Container L.)	58 111	44	38 782	32	19 329	12	33.3%	5 464	2	9.4%
25	Grimaldi (Napoli)	54 230	57	45 133	41	9 097	16	16.8%	8 784	11	16.2%
26	Sea Consortium	47 226	57			47 226	57	100.0%
27	CCNI	42 837	19			42 837	19	100.0%
28	TS Lines	41 477	26	4 734	3	36 743	23	88.6%
29	Maruba + CLAN	36 510	16			36 510	16	100.0%
30	Swire Shipping	34 060	33	19 094	17	14 966	16	43.9%
31	KMTC	33 677	28	16 382	17	17 295	11	51.4%
32	Schöller Group	33 499	26			33 499	26	100.0%	20 290	10	60.6%
33	Horizon Lines	32 683	16	18 557	11	14 126	5	43.2%
34	Seaboard Marine	31 608	43	8 440	11	23 168	32	73.3%
35	Matson	31 433	17	30 776	16	657	1	2.1%
36	OEL / Shreyas	29 458	28	13 529	15	15 929	13	54.1%	4 494	3	15.3%
37	Emirates Shipping Line	29 079	11			29 079	11	100.0%
38	SYMS	28 614	26			28 614	26	100.0%
39	SITC	27 784	37	9 908	13	17 876	24	64.3%	2 721	3	9.8%
40	UniFeeder	27 326	37			27 326	37	100.0%
41	Samudera	26 151	32	3 414	10	22 737	22	86.9%	5 584	4	21.4%
42	Nile Dutch Shg	24 962	20	4 117	5	20 845	15	83.5%	1 795	1	7.2%
43	Heung-A Shipping	24 227	26	6 808	12	17 419	14	71.9%
44	Linea Messina	23 877	19	21 435	16	2 442	3	10.2%
45	Sinokor	22 978	29	13 699	16	9 279	13	40.4%
46	Delphis NV / Team Lines	21 429	31			21 429	31	100.0%	44 004	16	205.3%
47	East Med Express (EMES)	21 038	24	10 920	11	10 118	13	48.1%
48	Rickmers Linie	20 190	15	16 992	9	3 198	6	15.8%	7 552	14	37.4%
49	Chipolbrok	19 762	18	19 762	18				11 100	6	56.2%
50	STX-Pan Ocean (Container)	19 546	17	3 424	4	16 122	13	82.5%	25 518	8	130.6%
All information above is given as guidance only and in good faith without guarantee © Alphaliner 1999-2008

Global Market Share evolution 2000-2008

sea carriers evolution market share 2000-2008

Extract from www.axs-alphaliner.com and document: AXS Alphaliner Market Shares 2008

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