Swiss international shipping line
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A
, branded as
MSC
, is an international shipping line founded by
Gianluigi Aponte
in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Switzerland since 1978.
[5]
It is the
world's largest container shipping company
by both fleet size and cargo capacity,
[6]
controlling about 19.7 percent of the global container ship fleet.
[7]
As of November 2023, MSC operates over 790 container vessels with an intake capacity of 5,505,417
twenty-foot equivalent units
(TEU).
[8]
MSC subsidiaries operate
rail freight transport
in Portugal and Spain,
cruise ships
, and
cargo aircraft
.
Overview
[
edit
]
MSC operates 524 offices in 155 countries with its headquarters in
Geneva
,
Switzerland
and has over 100,000 employees.
[8]
MSC's shipping line sails on more than 215 trade routes, calling at over 500 ports.
[8]
As of August 2023, it operates vessels with a capacity of up to 24,346
TEU
, including the world's largest
container ships
such as
MSC Turkiye
and
MSC Michel Cappellini
.
[9]
[10]
The company is independent and wholly owned by the Aponte family under the leadership of Diego Aponte. Diego was appointed president and CEO by his father and company founder Gianluigi in October 2014.
[7]
In December 2020, Soren Toft became MSC Chief Executive Officer.
[11]
Since 1989, MSC has owned the holiday
cruise
division
MSC Cruises
.
[12]
In 2015, MSC started train operations by taking over the cargo division of
Comboios de Portugal
, and operates container trains over the Iberian peninsula.
[13]
Its rail operations have later expanded to Italy and beyond, under the name
Medway
.
[14]
In 2022, the company launched a
cargo airline
,
MSC Air Cargo
.
[15]
History
[
edit
]
Mediterranean Shipping Company was founded in
Naples
in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain
Gianluigi Aponte
when he bought his first ship,
Patricia
, followed by
Rafaela
, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and
Somalia
. The line subsequently expanded through the purchase of second-hand cargo ships. By 1977, the company operated services to northern
Europe
,
Africa
and the
Indian Ocean
.
[7]
In 1978, the headquarters was established in
Geneva
,
Switzerland
.
[16]
The expansion continued through the 1980s; by the end of the decade, MSC operated ships to
North America
and
Australia
.
[7]
In 1988, MSC entered the cruise business by buying the liner
Monterey
.
[12]
In 1989, they purchased Lauro Lines. The new company was named StarLauro Cruises and had 2 ships,
Monterey
and
Achille Lauro
.
[17]
In 1994, the company ordered its first newly constructed ships, which were delivered beginning in 1996 with
MSC Alexa
. They were built by Italian shipbuilder,
Fincantieri
.
[7]
In 1995, StarLauro Cruises was renamed
MSC Cruises
.
[17]
In October 2014, Diego Aponte (son of MSC founder Gianluigi Aponte) was named president and chief executive of MSC, taking over from his father who was named group executive chairman. Gianluigi Aponte would continue to oversee all group related activities as well as supporting Diego in shaping the future of MSC.
[18]
In December 2014, the MSC shipping line were ranked number 6 in
Lloyd's List
of Top 100 Most Influential People in Shipping.
[18]
In January 2015, MSC launched the largest container ship,
MSC Oscar
, with a capacity of 19,224 TEU. Built by
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
and registered in
Panama
, it joined the Albatross service in January as part of the 2M VSA (
Vessel Sharing Agreement
between
Maersk Line
and MSC).
[19]
In June 2015
Maersk
and MSC signed a vessel-sharing agreement on the Asia-Europe, trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trades. The agreement is referred to as the 2M Alliance.
[20]
The 2M Alliance includes 185 vessels with an estimated capacity of 2.1 million TEU, deployed on 21 strings.
[20]
[21]
In February 2017, MSC purchased a 49% stake into
Messina Line
, an Italian shipping Line founded in
Genoa
,
Italy
in 1929, specialised in intra Mediterranean short sea, and
Europe
to East and West
Africa
routes. The company owns 8
Roll-on/roll-off
vessels and a Terminal in
Genoa
port, on top of a container fleet of 65,000 teu.
[22]
In October 2018, MSC decided to charter out the only two
car carriers
in its fleet (
MSC Immacolata
and
MSC Cristiana
)
[23]
to
Grimaldi Group
,
[24]
replacing them on the service towards
West Africa
[25]
with two
Messina Line
?
ConRO
vessels:
MSC Cobalto
(formerly
Jolly Cobalto
) and
MSC Titanio
(formerly
Jolly Titanio
).
[26]
The swap of these ships, that were previously deployed on MSC Adriatic Trade in between the ports of
Trieste
and
?zmir
,
[27]
results in view of a tighter collaboration between MSC and Messina Line.
[28]
In September 2020, MSC's subsidiary Marinvest completed the take over of 49 percent stake in Ignazio Messina and a 52 percent stake in Ro-Ro Italia, a new company that would control four of the Messina's roll-on/roll-off container vessels.
[29]
In December 2020, Søren Toft became MSC Chief Executive Officer.
[11]
Søren Toft is the first person outside the Aponte family to become CEO. He would report directly to Diego Aponte, MSC Group President, and Gianluigi Aponte, founder and MSC Group Chairman. Søren Toft also became a member of the board of directors of Terminal Investment Ltd.
[30]
In January 2021, MSC was awarded the "Maritime Sustainability Passport" (MSP) Certificate and Seal by the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA). NAMEPA's co-founder/executive director Carleen Lyden Walker staded that "By qualifying for NAMEPA's Maritime Sustainability Passport, MSC has demonstrated its commitment to stewardship of the environment, care for its employees, and responsible corporate governance".
[31]
In April 2021, MSC launched a special shipping service to help the distribution of pharmaceutical products during the
COVID-19 pandemic
.
[32]
In August 2021, Gary Keville Transport Limited obtained temporary High Court order lifting an embargo preventing it from collecting and delivering containers from Dublin port.
[33]
In December 2021, MSC was reported to offer at least 5.7 billion euros for Bollore Africa Logistics, a subsidiary of the
Bollore group
.
[34]
Later in December 2022, it was announced MSC had completed the acquisition of Bollore Africa Logistics.
[35]
On 6 January 2022, MSC became the largest container shipping company in the world, surpassing
Maersk
, in terms of TEU capacity, according to the latest Alphaliner's figures.
[36]
In March 2023, the company broke the record of biggest container ship in the world two times in a row by receiving the 24,116 TEU
MSC Tessa
mega container ship on 10 March and the 24,345 TEU
MSC Irina
mega container ship on 13 March.
[37]
In October 2023, MSC acquired a 50% stake in Italian passenger rail group
NTV
.
[38]
In March 2024, it was announced the MSC subsidiary Shipping Agencies Services (SAS) had reached agreement to acquire a 42% stake in the
Lyon
-headquartered air and sea transport engineering and overseas forwarding and logistics company, Clasquin Group.
[39]
That same month MSC acquired the
Il Secolo XIX
newspaper group.
[40]
2M Alliance: Maersk SeaLand/MSC
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In 2015,
Maersk SeaLand
and MSC launched the
2M Alliance
, a vessel-sharing agreement (VSA) to ensure competitive and cost-efficient operations on the Asia-Europe, trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trades.
[41]
[42]
The arrangement, which includes a series of slot exchanges and slot purchases on east?west routes, also involves Maersk Line and MSC taking over a number of charters and operations of vessels chartered to
HMM
. The 2M Alliance include 185 vessels with an estimated capacity of 2.1 million TEU, deployed on 21 strings.
[43]
[44]
The 2M arrangement had a minimum term of 10 years with a 2-year notice period of termination.
[41]
[42]
On 25 January 2023, CEO Vincent Clerc of A. P. Moller ? Maersk and CEO Soren Toft of MSC announced in a joint press statement that the two shipping lines would terminate the 2M Alliance in January 2025.
[41]
[42]
MSC Air Cargo
[
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]
In late 2022, MSC launched a
virtual
cargo airline
under the MSC Air Cargo brand, ordering four
Boeing 777F
cargo aircraft
; revenue flights commenced in December 2022
[45]
and the second aircraft was delivered in July 2023.
[15]
[46]
Although MSC owns the aircraft and they are painted in MSC
livery
, they are operated under contract by
Atlas Air
.
[46]
In August 2023, MSC announced the purchase of a majority share of Italian cargo carrier AlisCargo Airlines, which began flights in 2021 and previously operated four Boeing 777
preighters
.
[47]
[48]
[49]
AlisCargo suspended operations and voluntarily withdrew its
air operator's certificate
(AOC) in 2022 due to declining air cargo rates, which made freighter operation increasingly uneconomical, along with the expiration of a temporary
European Union Aviation Safety Agency
rule allowing cargo carriage on the main decks of passenger aircraft.
[47]
AlisCargo had a new 777F scheduled for delivery in 2024 and applied for a new AOC; once the new aircraft and the AOC were obtained, MSC said that AlisCargo would be merged into MSC Air Cargo, and MSC Air Cargo will operate flights independently from Atlas Air.
[47]
[49]
In May 2024, MSC Air Cargo announced that it had taken delivery of the fifth 777F and that independent operations would soon commence under the new Italian AOC.
[45]
Fleet
[
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]
Container ship classes of MSC
Ship class
|
Built
|
Capacity (TEU)
|
Ships in class
|
Notes
|
MSC Daniela
-class
|
2008?2010
|
13,798
|
8
|
|
MSC Danit
-class
|
2009?2012
|
13,050?14,036
|
23
|
|
MSC Beryl
-class
|
2010?2012
|
12,991
|
7
|
Long-term charter from
Niki Shipping
|
MSC Benedetta
-class
|
2011?2012
|
13,100
|
8
|
Long-term charter from
E.R. Schiffahrt
|
MSC Olympic
-class
|
2014?2015
|
19,224
|
6
|
|
MSC London
-class
|
2014?2016
|
16,652
|
6
|
Long-term charter from
Zodiac Maritime
and
Eastern Pacific Shipping
|
MSC Pegasus-
class
|
2016?2017
|
19,224?19,462
|
14
|
Long-term charter from
Eastern Pacific Shipping
,
Minsheng Financial Leasing
and
Ship Finance International
|
MSC Josseline
-class
|
2019
|
14,336
|
5
|
Long-term charter from
Zodiac Maritime
|
MSC Orion
-class
|
2019
|
14,952
|
4
|
Long-term charter from
Zodiac Maritime
|
MSC Gulsun
-class
|
2019?2021
|
23,656?23,756
|
16
|
|
MSC Chiyo
-class
|
2023?onwards
|
16,616
|
13
|
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have placed an order at
China State Shipbuilding Corporation
(CSSC) for thirteen 16000 TEU new container ships to be built at two CSSC shipyards.
[50]
|
|
2022?onwards
|
24,232
|
10
|
4 will be built by
Jiangnan Shipyard
, 4 will be built by
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding
and 2 will be built by
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding
[51]
[52]
The first ship of the class, the Hudong-type MSC Tessa were launched on 1 August 2022.
[53]
MSC Irina and MSC Loreto were launched at Yangzijiang Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding on 29 October 2022.
|
MSC Fatma
-class
|
2022?2023
|
15,300
|
11
|
Long-term charter from
Eastern Pacific Shipping
.
[54]
|
Notable ships:
MSC Air Cargo fleet
Aircraft
|
In service
|
Orders
|
Notes
|
Boeing 777F
|
5
|
0
|
Fourth and fifth aircraft delivered in early 2024.
[45]
|
Accidents and incidents
[
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]
MSC Carla
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]
On 24 November 1997, the
container ship
MSC Carla
encountered heavy weather and broke apart NE of
Azores
in the
North Atlantic Ocean
, when on route to
Boston
,
US
from
Le Havre
,
France
. The 34 crew members were air-lifted by helicopter to safety.
[55]
The fore part sank over a period of five days. The
stern
was towed to Spain where it was scrapped.
[56]
In 1984, the previous owners of the
MSC Carla
(her name was
MV Nihon
at that time) lengthened the ship by 15 meters. This was accomplished by cutting the vessel in two and welding in a lengthening module. The
structural failure
was at the forward end of the new mid-body. The design and installation of the new structure by the shipyard was found to have been faulty.
[57]
MSC Napoli
[
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]
On 18 January 2007, the container ship
MSC Napoli
was abandoned in the
English Channel
due to European storm
Kyrill
after severe gale-force winds and huge waves caused serious damage to
Napoli'
s hull, including a crack in one side and a flooded engine room.
[58]
All 26 crew were picked up from their lifeboat by
Sea King
helicopters of the
Royal Navy
's
Fleet Air Arm
and taken to
Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose
in
Cornwall
.
[59]
On 19 January 2007, the ship was taken under tow but because of the ship's deteriorating condition it was decided to beach the ship at
Branscombe
.
[60]
On 9 July 2007 the
MSC Napoli
was refloated,
[61]
but was immediately re-beached as a crack measuring 3 meters (9.8 ft) was found in the vessel's hull, running down both sides and through the keel. The decision was made to break the ship up near
Branscombe
beach.
[62]
MSC Nikita
[
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]
On 29 August 2009, the container ship
MSC Nikita
was involved in a collision with the
Nirint Pride
off the
Port of Rotterdam
and was breached in the
engine room
. She was towed to
Rotterdam
for emergency repairs and subsequently declared a
total loss
. There were no casualties.
[63]
MSC Chitra
[
edit
]
On 7 August 2010, the container ship
MSC Chitra
was involved in a collision with the bulk carrier
Khalijia II
while leaving
Jawaharlal Nehru Port
east of
Mumbai
in
Navi Mumbai
's
Raigad district
,
India
.
[64]
The
MV Khalijia II
had ripped into
MSC Chitra
port side, creating three major dents in its hull and the engine room gradually flooded. After collision the
MSC Chitra
listed heavily and was grounded 8 km outside of the port. The Indian captain and 32 crew members were evacuated.
[65]
On 17 April 2011, after the ship was declared a total loss, the
MSC Chitra
was scuttled by Titan Maritime approximately 385 miles off the coast of Mumbai, India.
[66]
MSC Zoe
[
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]
On 1 January 2019, whilst on a voyage from Portugal to Bremerhaven carrying more than 8,000 containers,
MSC Zoe
encountered severe weather causing her to roll violently.
[67]
345 containers went overboard into the North Sea near the
Wadden islands
off the Dutch coast. Of these, 297 containers were lost north of the Dutch island Ameland, the remaining containers some hours later north of the German island Borkum.
[68]
MSC Messina
[
edit
]
On 24 June 2021, the container ship
MSC Messina
caught fire in the midway of the
Indian Ocean
halfway between
Sri Lanka
and
Malacca Strait
.
[69]
[70]
The fire broke in the engine room of the ship, at some 480 nautical miles away from the
Great Basses Reef Lighthouse
,
Kirinda
.
[71]
[72]
MSC Danit
[
edit
]
On 16 October 2021, the container ship
MSC Danit
was boarded in the
Port of Long Beach
by the
United States Coast Guard
and
National Transportation Safety Board
marine casualty investigators. They were investigating an undersea pipeline that appeared to have been damaged by a ship's anchor and recently
spilled oil onto the beaches of Orange County
. MSC and ship owner, Dordellas Finance Corporation, and others were designated as parties of interest in the investigation.
[73]
MSC Palatium III
[
edit
]
On 15 December 2023, during the
Israel?Hamas war
,
MSC Palatium III
was damaged in a missile attack by
Houthi movement
insurgents in Yemen as she transited the Red Sea.
[74]
[75]
She turned around and exited the area.
[75]
In a statement the next day, MSC said that the ship had been taken out of service, there were no injuries to the crew, and that the company would cease routing vessels through the Red Sea due to the danger of further Houthi attacks.
[74]
MSC Palatium III
had been sailing under a Liberian flag and was not Israeli-owned, so it was not clear why she was attacked, but a U.S. intelligence analyst told the
Associated Press
that the ship may have been deliberately targeted because MSC had cooperated with the Israeli government.
[75]
MSC Aries
[
edit
]
On 13 April 2024 in the
Gulf of Oman
, off the Emirati port city of
Fujairah
,
[76]
the
IRGC Navy
boarded and seized container ship
MSC Aries
, claiming she was "violating maritime laws".
[77]
She was flying the
ensign
of
Portugal
.
[78]
[79]
[80]
MSC Aries
is leased by MSC from Gortal Shipping Inc., an affiliate of
Zodiac Maritime
(ZM).
[78]
[81]
The 25 crew aboard includes 17 Indian nationals, Filipinos, Pakistanis, a Russian and an Estonian. Iran has similarly attacked vessels and seized ships amidst persistent political issues since 2019.
[76]
On May 3, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian announced that captain and crew had been released, while the vessel remained held by Iran.
[82]
MSC Vera Cruz
[
edit
]
On 24 April 2024,
Madeira
-
flagged
cargo ship
MSC Vera Cruz
, while about 72 nautical miles southeast of Djibouti, was unsuccessfully fired upon, in tandem with U.S.-flagged container ship
Maersk Yorktown
, by Iranian-backed
Houthi
militants, who claimed responsibility.
[83]
[84]
[85]
MSC Gina
and
MSC Diego
[
edit
]
In May 2024, the two ships
MSC Gina
and
MSC Diego
were attacked by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. There was little damage done.
[86]
The former also had a similar incident in the previous month.
MSC Tavvishi
[
edit
]
In June 2024, the Houthi rebels fired missiles at the MSC Tavvishi and a couple of other ships, as they were sailing on the Red Sea.
[87]
See also
[
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]
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