New entrants shake up box operator ranking
Drewry's league table opens the door to domestic operators. Credit: Oneloneclone
SIPG, China Merchants, Modern Terminals and Ports America have forged their way into the Top 10 league table of this year’s Global Container Terminal Operators annual report, joining the ranks of PSA, HPH, APM Terminals, DP World, and Cosco.
Released by consultant Drewry Maritime Research, the ranking includes all companies with equity teu of more than one million teu in 2010, regardless of whether they operate internationally or not. In total this encompasses 65 firms and organisations ranging from the established international operators to state owned port authorities, financial investors and large local players.
Neil Davidson, Drewry’s Senior Advisor – Ports, said: “There are many other significant terminal operators around the world, a number of which have international ambitions. This new league table puts them into perspective and highlights the sheer scale of “local” operators such as SIPG, China Merchants, Modern Terminals and SIPG."
| Operator | Million teu | % share of world throughput | ||
| 1 | PSA | 51.3 | 9.4% | |
| 2 | Hutchison Port Holdings | 36.0 | 6.6% | |
| 3 | DP World | 32.6 | 6.0% | |
| 4 | APM Terminals | 31.6 | 5.8% | |
| 5 | Shanghai International Ports Group | 19.5 | 3.6% | |
| 6 | Cosco | 13.6 | 2.5% | |
| 7 | MSC | 9.9 | 1.8% | |
| 8 | China Merchants | 8.9 | 1.6% | |
| 9 | Ports America | 8.1 | 1.5% | |
| 10 | Modern Terminals | 8.0 | 1.5% | |
| Top 10 total: | 219.5 | 40.2% | ||
For more information on the report, visit www.drewry.co.uk.
Images for this article - click to enlarge
Unless otherwise stated, all images copyright © Mercator Media 2012. This does not exclude the owner's assertion of copyright over the material.
