地中海航运

2010年6月9日 in 国际物流
公司代码 地中海航运
缩  写 MSC
中文名称 地中海航运公司
英文名称 Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
官方网址 www.mscgva.ch
中文介绍


Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC) is currently the second-largest container shipping line in the world. The line operates 376 vessels and has a capacity of 1,250,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Services are operated to all major ports of the world.

MSC was founded in 1970 as a private company by Captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship. The Sorrento shipowner then traded to Africa carrying anything he could.

The shipping line has since grown from being a small regular ship operator to become one of the world's largest shipping lines. A cruise line subsidiary, MSC Italian Cruises was created in 1988. The corporate headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland and the line's main hub is in Antwerp, Belgium.

MSC serves 215 ports worldwide on the six continents. 350 local offices, employing a total of 28,000 people, provide an agency network representation. Vessels with up to a capacity of 9,200 TEU, including the one of the largest container ships, the MSC Pamela. The company remains independent and wholly owned by its president Aponte and his family.

The line was named shipping line of the year in 2006 for the fifth time in ten years by Lloyds Loading List.


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