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Release time：2018-05-03 browse：802second
Clarkson recently released the survey data, in reviewing the past 20 years of development, Clarkson said that the integration trend in the last 20 years has continued to accelerate and M & A activities are very active. In 1998, the world's top 20 carrier companies accounted for 73% of the total capacity of the global market. Maersk led 7.2% of the shipping capacity, while the twentieth ranked South American Steamship accounted for 1.3%. The No. 21-30 shipping company also includes a number of companies that are still well known to the day, such as Wan Hai, Crowley, Matson and Taiping (thirtieth). In addition, it also includes other shipping companies that are currently combined, such as Safmarine, Arabia steamships, Hamburg, South America, Delmas and MISC.
However, the consolidation of the transport industry has dramatically changed this situation. The world's top 20 largest transport companies accounted for 90% of the current total capacity of the market, while the top 10 top 10 shipping companies accounted for 83% of the market share. The largest shipping company is still Maersk shipping, which is now 19.4%; the tenth place star steamer is 1.8%, and the twentieth Quanzhou andin is only 0.3%. At present, the transport capacity of the top 10 largest shipping companies in the world is 10.4 times the total capacity of the 11-20 largest integrated transport company, which was only 2.4 times 20 years ago.
As of April 2018, Japan's major shipping companies, Japanese mail ships, merchant ship Mitsui and Kawasaki steamboat have completed integration, the establishment of the transport company Ocean Network Express (ONE), become another milestone in the continuous consolidation of the transport industry.
Clarkson pointed out that the change is the result of the era of large aggregation companies, and now it looks like this large-scale integration wave may be slowed down, considering that the integration trend of large shipping companies may be slowing after the merger between the East and the COSCO. The cost base and scale economy of liner companies have brought benefits and advantages, resulting in the inevitable reduction of the number of major operators in many transport industry for a long time.