Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 1-2
Top Five Vessel Sharing Agreements as of Feb. 1, 2001

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  Carriersa Vessels TEUs
Grand Alliance 14 117 500,063
New World Alliance 8 86 340,456
Cosco 9 77 200,654
Maersk Sealand 12 68 183,676
CMA-CGM 8 73 171,944
Total of top five 51 421 1,396,793
Total sharing agreements   1,867 3,625,690

aIncludes regional partners.

KEY: TEU = Twenty-foot equivalent unit.

SOURCE: MDS Transmodal, Containership Databank (Chester, England: February 2001).

  • As of February 1, 2001, 39 percent of the world shared containership capacity was involved in the top five vessel sharing agreements.


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