Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the global shipping industry has entered a long troughs, and from about 2013-2017, the global shipping industry has experienced an unprecedented bankruptcy and integration of m&a is as the baptism of the storm.
The global shipping market concentration has been further increased, but it is much larger.
Against this backdrop, let’s take a look at the world’s largest ship owner rankings today.Data from IHS Markit, June 2018.Ranked by beneficial owners, that is, the formal removal of time charter and other forms of control of the operation of the ship.
First of all, by ship type.
The following is the TOP25 ship owner (operational fleet + ship under construction) according to the total tonnage GT of all ship types owned by the beneficiary shipowner.
In operating fleets by gross tonnage and ranking:
According to VesselValue’s data on fleet value provided to sindh maritime.
The asset value of the vessel in accordance with all its hull form to calculate the sum of the sum of cosco shipping corp’s fleet is still at the top, followed by maersk group, ranked third for shipping magnate frederickson John Fredriksen.
Cosco has 715 ships in real interest, including new building orders, with a total value of about $20 billion
Maersk operates about 500 tanker ships of all types, including Maersk tanker, worth about $17.4bn in assets.
John Fredriksen, the Norwegian ship king (who now holds actual Cypriot citizenship), owns 225 ships, worth about $10.4 billion.If 26 of its ships are under construction, the combined value of its ships’ assets is about $13.5bn.