The 10 Largest Container Shipping Companies in the World

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6. Hapag-Lloyd

Country: Germany

Founded: 1970

Total Capacity (TEU): 632,000

Hapag-Lloyd is the sixth largest among the ten largest container shipping companies in the world. Its container-ship fleet comprises 151 ocean vessels. This company was built in 1970 as a union of two independent German companies, Hapag (Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien Gessellschaft) and North German Lloyd (NGL) or Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL).

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