News / Maersk may be on course to lose its crown as the world's biggest box carrier

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By Mike Wackett

17/10/2019

MSC is on course to overtake alliance partner Maersk as the biggest ocean carrier by capacity within the next two years.

A new order for five 23,000 teu ULCVs from the South Korean Daewoo yard will take the Geneva-based carrier’s orderbook to 16 vessels, for a ...

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Martyn Benson
October 17, 2019 at 3:44 pm
MSC Isabella???
This situation has been developing for 18 mths to two years…..old news.

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- Anoop
  October 18, 2019 at 7:03 am
  Maersk is King. It know ho to act
  
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WSL
October 18, 2019 at 12:13 am
Can they make a solution first to climate change other than competing themeselves…?

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Jon
October 18, 2019 at 2:03 pm
Maersk have been losing it’s so called crown for several years.
Nothing new, Big is not beautiful.
Many a client just get lost in maersk s Infrastructure.

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