Top 20 container lines

Mid-size lines spearhead the latest wave of big-ship orders.

Backed into a corner by the changing dynamics of container shipping, a handful of the world’s top liner carriers finally made their move in the last 12 months.
That is to say, they entered into the mega-vessel market, ordering ships of massive scale and equally massive cost. Fresh off industry-wide, record-breaking profits in 2010, these mid-sized lines have come out swinging.