A public reference property of Baalvion

Open data · every figure carries its source

World Shipping DirectoryCompanies · Ships · Fleets

A public reference property of Baalvion

Open data · every figure carries its source

World Shipping DirectoryCompanies · Ships · Fleets

water transport

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd

צים שירותי ספנות משולבים בע"מ

#10 container line by published capacity

Headquarters: Haifa
Founded: 1945
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: 20px|link=User:Kcida10|Kcida10 Kcida10 (talk) (Uploads). · CC0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

115

Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Container capacity

698,205 TEU

Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Gross tonnage on record

93,940

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

This company reports 115 ships while this registry holds individual records for 3. That gap is coverage, not a contradiction: open reference data documents a minority of the world fleet ship by ship. The list below is what can be named and verified.

In brief

What Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd is

Full article ↗

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., commonly known as ZIM (Hebrew: צים, tsim; a biblical word meaning "a fleet of ships", Numbers 24:24), is a publicly held Israeli international cargo shipping company, and one of the top 20 global carriers. The company's headquarters are in Haifa, Israel; Founded in 1945, ZIM has traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021. From 1948 to 2004, it traded as ZIM Israel Navigation Company.
In February 2026 the company was sold to Germany's Hapag-Lloyd for $4.2 billion.

Quoted from ZIM (shipping company) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd was founded in 1945 by 2 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Jewish Agency for Israel

international Jewish organization, founded 1929, supporting Jewish immigratio to Israel

Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Founder

Histadrut

Israeli trade union

Photo: ד"ר אברהם וולפנזון, מנהל בית הספר לפעילי ההסתדרות בתל אביב · CC BY 2.5 · file

People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Chief executive

Eliyahu Glickman

1961

Photo: יוסי וייס · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: צים שירותי ספנות משולבים בע"מ
Industry: water transport
Legal form: limited company
Country of registration: Israel
Headquarters: Haifa
Formed in: —
Founded: 1945
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: IL0065100930
Legal Entity Identifier: 21380089EIJRELKAIL21
Head office coordinates: 32.8192, 34.9992

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 36.3 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1957
Newest vessel on record: 2008
Largest vessel by tonnage: 53,453
Average tonnage: 46,970
Market share: 2.1%
Parent company: The Israel Corporation Ltd.
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Deutsche Werft1

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries1

Samsung Heavy Industries1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record · Container ship

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Four Star	9280835	Container ship	Palau	2004	53,453	66,597	294.0 m	HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
ZIM China	9389382	Container ship	Liberia	2008	40,487	51,773	261.4 m	Samsung Heavy Industries

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Israel is the country of registration for 1 commercial operators in this directory, among which Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 3 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Israel.

Founded in 1945, Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd is 81 years old. This directory holds 63 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q203386, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from ZIM (shipping company) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresAlphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia), as of 2026-04-30. These are the industry’s numbers, not this directory’s.