MSC takes Maersk as the world leader in maritime transport

Despite the difficulties of its cruise division and thanks to soaring freight prices, the Swiss MSC has exceeded in terms of tonnage the capacity of the traditional heavyweight in the sector, the Danish Maersk.

The Swiss group MSC is the “World leader in oceans” following taking first place from the traditional heavyweight in the sector, A.P. Moller-Maersk, “Following the reception, Wednesday [5 janvier], in Singapore, a new container ship ”, applauds The weather. The Geneva shipowner can now boast of transporting “4 284 728 EVP (twenty feet equivalent), or 1 888 more than its Danish competitor ”.

The margin is still thin between the two champions of maritime freight transport, each sharing “17 % of market share ” sector, notes the Swiss daily. Especially since “The Geneva firm has a smaller fleet than that of the Danish, because it operates many boats that are not its own (65% of its vessels are chartered once morest 42% for Maersk)”. But she’s the one who has the order book “The most supplied in the sector”, with 1 millionEVP.

And the gap between the two companies “Should widen”, Maersk instead investing in “Capacities on earth”, while MSC has a “Fleet of 630 container ships, barely half a century following its creation in 1970 (in Brussels, before moving to Geneva in 1978)”.

New sea routes

“We never set ourselves the goal of being the biggest”, nevertheless affirms the director of MSC, Soren Toft. However, with the pandemic, the shipowner “Launched around ten maritime routes to cope with rising demand and congestion problems in ports”. And that, for a year, the Swiss group has bought “A good sixty second-hand cargo ships, [a] ordered more than 40 new ships and 12 cruise ships ”. The Swiss daily also recalls that “MSC wants in particular to buy the logistics activities of the Bolloré group in Africa ”.

With the strong economic recovery of last summer, which saw maritime transport suffer from bottlenecks, the price of freight has skyrocketed, “Generating record profits in the sector”. Maersk offered a bonus of $ 1,000 in December “To each of its 80,000 employees”.

MSC not publishing “No financial figures”, impossible to know what benefits he derived from the pandemic. They were sufficient to enable it to support its cruise division, “In crisis in the face of Covid-19”. Despite the “Shy recovery” in the summer of 2021, the sector is once once more “Affected by Omicron”.

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