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A few days ago, Alphaliner, the Paris-based shipping analysis agency, pointed out that the Mediterranean shipping industry is expected to shake the dominance of Maersk Line, the world's largest liner shipping company, for the next four years.

In the four years since 2009, the total volume of new container ships (buy-ship shipyards) for Mediterranean shipping has reached 572,000 TEUs, and the gap with Maersk Line has shrunk from 250,000 TEUs to less than 100,000 TEUs. Alphaliner predicts that by September 2016, the status of the top five global liner giants (Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping, CMA, Evergreen, and COSCO) will remain unchanged.

Recently, Yangming Shipping and the United Arab Emirates have separately contracted a batch of 14,000-1.8 million standard TEU container ships, which will undoubtedly enhance their ranking in the liner shipping industry. If the calculation is based on the premise of the two companies building their own new ships, their rankings will be increased from 14 and 19 to 10 and 14 respectively. At the same time, Hapag-Lloyd's ranking will be ranked second to eighth, while the U.S. general ship's ranking will move from the current 8th to 6th. In addition, the Starship will drop 3 to 20th.

Alphaliner also stated that although the rankings of the world’s top 20 liner companies have been adjusted, the possibility of mergers between companies or withdrawal from the liner shipping industry in the short term is negligible. In 2012, there were rumors that the Malaysian shipping industry had decided to withdraw from the liner industry because of the unfavorable factors such as increased shipping costs and rising investment costs of large vessels. The market predicts that the withdrawal of Malaysia Airlines may become a merger wave between small and medium-sized liner companies or forced out of the liner industry. Suo.

If the purpose of the top 20 global liner companies to build new ships is to ensure that they do not merge in the short term, and they can stand proudly in the industry for a long time, the effective integration of the liner industry in the near future looks like a month in the water.

In the past four years, 18 of the world’s top 20 liner companies have already issued their own orders for new shipbuilding vessels, with a total of 344 new vessels and a total volume of 3.4 million TEUs, with a value of USD 34.1 billion. During this period, only Star and Japan Mail did not move and did not set aside a new container ship.