News / Aggressive fleet builders HMM and Zim overtake Yang Ming in liner ranking

09/04/2024

Yang Ming’s conservative containership fleet expansion has seen the Taiwanese operator slip down the liner ranks.

In 2020, at the start of the Covid-fuelled boom, Yang Ming was the eighth-largest box line. Now it is overshadowed by peers that embarked on aggressive programmes of newbuilding orders ...

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