Largest Container Shipping Companies 2026
About This Dataset
Largest Container Shipping Companies 2026
Fleet capacity in twenty-foot equivalent units as of April 2026, the standard measure of how much a container line can carry. Capacity counts both owned and chartered ships, so a line that leases much of its fleet ranks on what it operates rather than on what it owns.
Analysis
MSC operates 7,318,632 TEU of capacity, 21.6% of the world fleet and 1.6 times the 4,647,588 TEU of Maersk. The 15 lines here control 30,390,992 TEU between them, 89.7% of world capacity. The top five alone hold 65.6%. 9 of the 15 are headquartered in Asia.
Source:
Alphaliner, via Wikipedia
Key Findings
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MSC leads in Fleet Capacity (TEU) with 7,318,632 in 2026.
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Average Fleet Capacity (TEU) in 2026: 2,026,066 · median: 1,029,773.
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Gap in 2026: MSC is 44.3× larger than Unifeeder.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Alphaliner, via Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2026 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Fleet Capacity (TEU)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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