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News / Cosco takes biggest container line title from Maersk after a bumper Q3

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A 23% increase in containers lifted allowed Cosco to steal the top spot from Maersk Line in the third quarter.

The Chinese carrier loaded 5.49 million teu, compared with the Danish carrier’s 5.26m.

According to Alphaliner’s liftings league table, the Chinese line loaded 23% more containers in Q3 than ...

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  • Hercules Haralambides

    November 30, 2017 at 7:45 am

    Nice article. Liftings is a good statistic when it comes to studying “market shares” but the metric that counts when it comes to awarding accolades is liftings per slot or, to make things even more interesting, liftings per ship. And this would be more interesting if reported per route, e.g. Asia – Europe, rather than globally (something that doesn’t say much). Again, compliments for the article.

    • Mike Wackett

      November 30, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      Thank you for the nice comments Hercules.
      Feedback is very important to us.
      And yes, it would be great if we could obtain consistent transparency from the carriers.

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