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Reported fleet size
735
Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30
Container capacity
4,647,588 TEU
Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30
Gross tonnage on record
1,572,279
Summed over 16 ships reporting tonnage
This company reports 735 ships while this registry holds individual records for 16. 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
Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of Maersk, a Danish business conglomerate. Founded in 1928, it is the world's second largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries. As of 2024, it employed over 100,000 people. Maersk Line operates over 700 vessels and has a total capacity of about 4.1 million TEU.
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
252bn SEK
Reported for 2024
Corporate structure
Parent company
Maersk
Owned by
Fleet on record
Composition of the 16 vessels this registry attributes to Maersk A/S. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
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. 3 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 214,286 | 14 | |
| 2018 | 2 | 188,656 | 16 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 16 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 16 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9694581 | General cargo | Singapore | 2014 | 51,872 | — | 255.0 m | HHIC Phil |
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
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 16 vessels attributed to it here, Maersk A/S is the 51st 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.
Denmark is the country of registration for 52 commercial operators in this directory, among which Maersk A/S ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 122 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Denmark.
Founded in 1928, Maersk A/S is 98 years old. This directory holds 41 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.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q446750, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Maersk Line 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.