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Five shipping companies lead the world with 43.2% of the market
Posted On 26 May 2015
The Italian MSC, Denmark’s Maersk, French CMA CGM, the Taiwanese Evergreen and china Cosco possess more than one quarter of the boats and 43.2% of the tonnage.
1′ 057.075 containers of 20 feet moving in the State port Guayaquil Simon Bolivar, through shipping agencies, 339.637 were of Maersk.
According to the statistics of 2014 from the port authority of Guayaquil, Mediterranean Shipping, Hamburg Süd, Transoceánica and CMA-CGM Ecuador followed to Maersk.
The origin of the consolidation of the market of the containers was the race to gain market share in the expansion of manufacturing production in Asia (Japan and China especially). In Ecuador the containerization also won space. GLC