5 Biggest Shipping Companies in the World

4. CMA CGM

Twenty foot equivalent (TEU) capacity of the company in 2020: 3,015,485

Total market share of the company in 2020: 12.5%

Number of ships owned by the company in 2020: 570

The biggest shipping company in France is CMA CGM, which is headquartered in Marseille. The company was founded 42 years ago in 1978 and makes use of more than 200 shipping routes which are between 420 ports. The company is active in around 150 countries in the world and earned more than $30 billion in 2019 alone, along with $229 million in income and has more than 110,000 employees.

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