标题: 2012 Ranking of World Container Ship Ownership by Countries and Firms [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-5-2012 09:03 标题: 2012 Ranking of World Container Ship Ownership by Countries and Firms Tsao Yu-fan and Jamie Wang, Three Taiwanese Container Ship Operators Among World's Top 20. Central News Agency (CNA), Dec 4, 2012. http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/W ... amp;ID=201212050018
, whose full text shows
(i) at page 41: Table 2.4 The 35 countries and territories with the largest owned fleets, as of 1 January 2012 (Dwt)
(Greece > Japan > China> Korea, Republic of > United States > China, Taiwan Province of> Norway > Denmark > Chinese Taipei> Singapore)
(A) Ranked by Dwt or
dry wight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_weight
(B) Footnote b of Table 2.4: "The country of ownership indicates where the true controlling interest (that is, the parent company) of the fleet is located."
(C) Why there are separate ranking of "China, Taiwan Province of" and "Chinese Taipei" is unexplained.
(ii) at page 42: Table 2.5 Countries/territories of pwnership, by main vessel types (Dwt and dollars as percentages, January 2012 estimates(showing most ships Germany owns (NO 1 in the world) are containers, whereas those Greece owns, (oil) tankers)
(iii) at page 43: Table 2.5 The 20 leading service operators of container ships, 1 January 2012 (Number of ships and total shipped capacity deployed, in TEUs)
((Maersk Line > MSC> CMA CGM Group > APL > Cosco > Evergreen Line (No 6)>Hapag-Lloyd Group > CSCL (7)> OOCL (11)> Yang Ming (15)> Wan-Hai Lines Limited (20))
(iv) at page 80: "Chinese ports, with the exception of Hong Kong (China) and Taiwan, Province of China, accounted for around 25.8 per cent of world container throughput in 2011, down from 27.4 per cent inthe previous year. The reduction of Chinese ports’ share in world container
throughput also corresponds to a reduction in Chinese
imports of some raw materials, such as iron ore and
thermal coal."
(v) The CNA report states "the UNCTAD report also ranked Taiwan as the 13th country among 159 countries evaluated on the Liner Shipping Connectivity Index."
(b) Alphaliner - TOP 100 ; Operated fleets as per 05 December 2012.
The CNA report also says, "However, according to the latest data by container market analyst Alphaliner, as of Dec 4, the number of Evergreen vessels has increased from 159 to 184 and has surpassed APL and Cosco to become the world's fourth-largest." http://www.alphaliner.com/top100/index.php
(APM-Maersk> Mediterranean Shg Co > CMA CGM Group > Evergreen Line 長榮> COSCO Container L >> Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp 陽明 (No 14)>> Wan Hai Lines 萬海 (21))