Maersk
*includes Maersk Line, Safmarine, MCC-Transport, Seago Line and Mercosul Line
- Founded: By Arnold Peter Møller in April 1904
- Headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 592 ships (~3 million TEUs) with another 35 on order (~0.5 million TEUs)
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)
*includes WEC Lines
- Founded: By Gianluigi Aponte in 1970 in Naples, Italy
- Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 496 ships (~2.7 million TEUs) with another 50 on order (~0.7 million TEUs)
CMA CGM
*includes CMA CGM, Delmas, ANL, US Lines, Cheng Lie Navigation Co, Feeder Associate System, Cagema, MacAndrews, OPDR and CoMaNav
- Founded: By Jacques Saadé in 1978
- Headquarters: Marseille, France
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 466 ships (~1.8 million TEUs) with another 26 on order (~0.3 million TEUs)
Evergreen Line
*includes Evergreen Marine Corporation (EMC), Evergreen Marine (UK) Ltd, Evergreen Marine (HK) Ltd and Italia Marittima
- Founded: In 1968 by Dr. Yung-Fa Chang
- Headquarters: Taoyuan City, Taiwan
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 199 ships (~0.95 million TEUs) with another 41 on order (~0.4 million TEUs)
Hapag-Lloyd
- Founded: Founded in 1970 with the merger of Hamburg America Line and North German Lloyd, both established in mid-1800.
- Headquarters: Hamburg, Germany
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 174 ships (~0.92 million TEUs) with another 5 on order (~53 thousand TEUs)
COSCO Container Lines (COSCON)
- Founded: 1997
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 164 ships (~0.87 million TEUs) with another 22 on order (~0.3 million TEUs)
China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL)
*includes Shanghai Puhai Shipping Co (SPS) and Golden Sea Shipping (GSS)
- Founded: 1997
- Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 133 ships (~0.7 million TEUs) with another 8 on order (~108 thousand TEUs)
Hamburg Süd Group
*includes Hamburg Süd, Aliança and CCNI
- Founded: 1871. It is part of the Oetker Group, a family-owned German conglomerate.
- Headquarters: Hamburg, Germany
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 137 ships (~0.65 million TEUs) with another 5 on order (~24 thousand TEUs)
Hanjin Shipping Company
- Founded: 1977
- Headquarters: South Korea
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 105 ships (~0.63 million TEUs) with another 4 on order (~36 thousand TEUs)
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL)
- Founded: In 1969 by C.Y. Tung
- Headquarters: Hong Kong, China
- Fleet: Operates a fleet of 105 ships (~0.57 million TEUs) with another 7 on order (~135 thousand TEUs)
Source: Alphaliner Top-100 (as on October 16, 2015)
| Total | Owned | Chartered | Orderbook | |||||||
| Operator | TEU (‘000) | Ships | TEU (‘000) | Ships | TEU (‘000) | Ships | % Total | TEU (‘000) | Ships | % Total |
| APM-Maersk | 3024 | 592 | 1739 | 262 | 1285 | 330 | 43% | 445 | 35 | 15% |
| Mediterranean Shg Co | 2659 | 496 | 1053 | 190 | 1606 | 306 | 60% | 663 | 50 | 25% |
| CMA CGM Group | 1818 | 466 | 604 | 88 | 1214 | 378 | 67% | 293 | 26 | 16% |
| Evergreen Line | 949 | 199 | 548 | 106 | 401 | 93 | 42% | 394 | 41 | 42% |
| Hapag-Lloyd | 924 | 174 | 499 | 68 | 425 | 106 | 46% | 53 | 5 | 6% |
| COSCO Container L. | 868 | 164 | 464 | 85 | 404 | 79 | 47% | 338 | 22 | 39% |
| CSCL | 692 | 133 | 487 | 65 | 205 | 68 | 30% | 108 | 8 | 16% |
| Hamburg Süd Group | 651 | 137 | 292 | 44 | 359 | 93 | 55% | 24 | 5 | 4% |
| Hanjin Shipping | 634 | 105 | 278 | 38 | 356 | 67 | 56% | 36 | 4 | 6% |
| OOCL | 568 | 105 | 349 | 49 | 219 | 56 | 39% | 135 | 7 | 24% |