Mediterranean Shipping Company
| MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Holding SA
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1970 |
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Geneva , Switzerland
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| management |
 Gianluigi Aponte(Chairman of the MSC Group) Diego Aponte ( CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 24,000 (2015) |
| sales | will not be published |
| Branch | Shipping companies |
| Website | www.msc.com |
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The Mediterranean Shipping Company ( MSC ) is a shipping company based in Geneva . It is currently the second largest container shipping company after Mærsk Line and is also active in the cruise and ferry business with its subsidiary MSC Crociere (international MSC Cruises , based in Naples ) and the SNAV and GNV . All of these companies are unlisted.
history
The history of the MSC can be roughly assigned to specific development steps in the first four decades. The first decade was marked by the beginnings of the shipping company in tramp shipping and the establishment of the first liner services with general cargo ships , which were mostly taken over by liner shipping companies. During the 1980s, the shipping company largely switched its fleet to used container ships and also entered the cruise business. In the 1990s, MSC became a globally operating container liner shipping company, with newbuildings starting in 1996 for the first time. Since 2000, MSC has developed into the second largest container liner shipping company and also a major cruise operator.
1970 to 1980
The company was founded in 1970 by the Italian captain Gianluigi Aponte . The first ship of the shipping company Aponte Shipping Company was the Korbach of the Hamburg shipping company Hans Krüger, built in 1955 at the Meyer shipyard . Under the new name of Patricia , the ship was used in tramping in the Mediterranean until 1973. In the following year, Aponte acquired the Magdeburg of the Hamburg-America Line , built in 1952 , which remained in service as Rafaela until 1977 . After the acquisition of the Rafaela , the company was renamed the Mediterranean Shipping Company and the chimney brand that is still valid today was introduced . In the following years, other ships that were acquired used were added. After the trampoline shipping area had initially been expanded to Northern Europe, MSC set up its first liner services across the Suez Canal to the Middle East and East Africa in 1972 and expanded them to Northern Europe from 1977. In the meantime, the shipping company's headquarters were relocated to Geneva in 1975 for family reasons. With the next expansion at the end of the 1970s, South Africa was added to the MSC route network.
1980 to 1990
At the beginning of the 1980s, MSC acquired several bulk carriers and had them converted into container ships. In addition, numerous semi- container ships and later more and more full container ships joined the MSC fleet. In 1985 MSC opened the first transatlantic service and in 1989 the first Australian service ( Wallaby service ) was added.
In 1987 MSC entered the cruise business with the takeover of the cruise line Flotta Lauro and renamed the shipping company StarLauro.
1990 to 2000
In the early 1990s, the naming scheme of the ships was changed to names with the prefix MSC . In 1994 MSC started its first South American service, followed by the Silk service to the Far East in 1996 and the Pacific service in 1999. Over the course of the decade, MSC had closed the last remaining gaps in the shipping area in order to be able to be regarded as a worldwide liner shipping company.
Until 1995, MSC only acquired used container ships . The fleet consisted of an increasing number of second-hand container ship types of the first to third generation from well-known liner shipping companies, such as B. from NYK , Mitsui-OSK , Hapag-Lloyd , Mærsk u. a. It was not until 1996 that MSC ordered or chartered new container ships.
After the StarLauro ship Achille Lauro sank after a fire off the Somali coast at the end of 1994, MSC renamed its cruise subsidiary to Mediterranean Shipping Cruises .
2000 until today
A second Far East service was opened in 2002, the Dragon Service. In the same year services to Canada and an India-Pakistan service were started. The following year, the MSC Lirica, the first new build of a cruise ship, was put into service.
In October 2012, MSC put the MSC Anastasia, a post-Panamax bulk carrier, into service. The roughly 230 meter long ship was built at the STX shipyard in Dalian .
With the French shipping company CMA CGM and the Danish shipping company Maersk , MSC wanted to form an alliance called P3 for 2014 and founded a joint venture in London at the end of 2013 to control the entire fleet. The US competition authority granted approval, but China refused, so that the alliance is considered a failure. Instead, the 2M alliance with Mærsk Line was formed. In September 2017, six ships were ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries and five from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for 22,000 TEU ; in April 2018 the capacity was announced at 23,000 TEU. They are the first container ships 61 meters wide.
MSC today
Currently (July 2017) 460 container ships with a slot capacity of around 2,600,000 TEU (for comparison: Mærsk Line 639 and 3,300,000 TEU) are sailing under the MSC flag . The names of the ships provide information about which one was chartered and which belongs to the shipping company. The charter ships are named after cities, countries and parts of the world (e.g. MSC Busan ) while the own ships are mostly named with female first names (e.g. MSC Denisse ).
The currently largest MSC container ships with a capacity of 23,500 TEU each are the ships of the Megamax 24 series . They were built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea from 2014 . In January 2015, the MSC Oscar was put into service, the largest container ship in the world at the time with a capacity of 19,224 TEU.
The most important central container terminal of the MSC is Antwerp , where PSA-HNN operates a 167 hectare MSC Home Terminal. MSC serves 270 ports with 170 routes worldwide. In Germany, MSC is present through the line agency MSC Germany SA & Co KG (formerly FH Bertling line agency) with offices in Bremen, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Lübeck, Stuttgart, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin, Nuremberg and Munich and operates a terminal in cooperation with Eurogate in Bremerhaven (MSC Gate).
MSC is the owner of the cruise line MSC Cruises in Geneva and the ferry line Società Navigazione Alta Velocità (SNAV) in Naples. Over 30,000 people work for MSC in 390 branches in 146 countries around the world.
Misfortunes and incidents
- In 2005 MSC Al Amine caused 100 to 150 tons of heavy fuel oil to be discharged in the Gulf of Tunis .
- 2006 had MSC dollars pay 10½ million penalty because 2004 during five months of the MSC Elena deliberately oil sludge were discharged into the sea more than 40 tons.
- The shipping company became known to the general public when the container ship MSC Napoli chartered by it got into distress in the English Channel on January 18, 2007 as a result of hurricane Kyrill and, in order to avoid a breakup on the open sea, was deliberately aground at Branscombe .
- The container ship MSC Chitra collided with another ship in Jawaharlal Nehru Port on August 8, 2010 , as a result of which around 300 containers fell into the port waters. As a result of the collision, the ship lost around 800 tons of oil. Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the neighboring Mumbai Port were then closed for three days. The MSC Chitra , which was declared a total loss and was initially due to be scrapped, was sunk in international waters in April 2011 with cargo still on board, including dangerous goods.
- The Rena chartered by MSC ran aground on October 5, 2011 on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of New Zealand's North Island and broke into two parts on January 8, 2012 during a storm, with several hundred containers going overboard.
- 10 October 2011 MSC has been prepared by Magistrate Haifa to a fine of 1.01 million shekels condemned the MSC Pearl contaminated with oil in December 2010 ballast water was pumped into the port of Haifa.
- On July 14, 2012 , a fire broke out on board the MSC Flaminia , which was en route from the United States to Europe . There were explosions during the extinguishing work. The ship was towed, but was only able to call at the JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven as an emergency port at the beginning of September .
- In January 2015, the charcoal load in a container caught fire on the MSC Katrina in the North Sea south of Heligoland . Two teams of specially trained fire fighting units were brought on board and were able to extinguish the fire.
- On the night of January 2, 2019, the container ship MSC Zoe sailing under the Panamanian flag , which was on its way from Sines to Bremerhaven, was damaged during the violent storm Alfrida . 291 containers fell into the sea, of which 220 containers had been located on the sea floor using sonar by January 7, 2019; another 18 containers were washed ashore. The flotsam that washed up on the West Frisian and East Frisian islands included auto parts, furniture, refrigerators, plastic toys and surgical clothing. Numerous containers, including three with dangerous goods , are still missing. Around 280 bags of the bleaching agent dibenzoyl peroxide (trade name Perkadox CH-50X) and 1.5 tons of lithium-ion batteries are said to have been in the dangerous goods containers . The MSC Zoe docked in Bremerhaven on January 3rd. Numerous helpers and soldiers from the Dutch armed forces helped with the collection of the debris. The debris that accumulates as flotsam , such as on the island of Terschelling , is primarily collected by numerous volunteers. On February 6, 2019, MSC issued a new notification and increased the number of lost containers from 291 to 345. Only a few containers and parts of their contents could be recovered during the recovery. The dangerous goods containers were no longer found.
Fleet list
The list only contains the newbuildings of MSC (no charter ships or second hand tonnage) and does not claim to be complete.
| year | Surname | measurement | Container | shipyard | Status / fate |
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| 1996 | MSC Alexa | 42307 GT | 3300 TEU | Fincantieri , Monfalcone | in service |
| 1996 | MSC Rafaela | 42307 GT | 3300 TEU | Fincantieri, Monfalcone | in service |
| 1999 | MSC Diego | 40631 GT | 4056 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries , Busan | in service |
| 1999 | MSC Regina | 40631 GT | 4056 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 1999 | MSC Gina | 40631 GT | 4056 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2000 | MSC Aniello | 40631 GT | 4056 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2000 | MSC Sandra | 43575 GT | 4,340 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2001 | MSC Alyssa | 43575 GT | 4,340 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2002 | MSC Laura | 75590 GT | 6750 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding , Okpo | in service |
| 2002 | MSC Luisa | 75590 GT | 6750 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2003 | MSC Vanessa | 75590 GT | 6750 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2003 | MSC Ludovica | 75590 GT | 6750 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2003 | MSC Florentina | 75590 GT | 6750 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2003 | MSC Maureen | 75590 GT | 6750 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2002 | MSC Barbara | 73819 GT | 6408 TEU | Hyundai Heavy Industries , Ulsan | in service |
| 2002 | MSC Michaela | 73819 GT | 6408 TEU | Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan | in service |
| 2002 | MSC Melissa | 73819 GT | 6408 TEU | Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan | in service |
| 2002 | MSC Loretta | 73819 GT | 6408 TEU | Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan | in service |
| 2003 | MSC Marina | 73819 GT | 6408 TEU | Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan | in service |
| 2004 | MSC Stella | 73819 GT | 6724 TEU | Hyundai Samho, Ulsan | in service |
| 2005 | MSC Pamela | 107849 GT | 9178 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding , Goeje | in service |
| 2005 | MSC Susanna | 107849 GT | 9178 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Deborah | 55 150 GT | 5100 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Benedetta | 55 150 GT | 5100 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Mara | 55 150 GT | 5100 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Olga | 55 150 GT | 5100 TEU | Hanjin Heavy Industries, Busan | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Silvana | 94489 GT | 8400 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Tomoko | 94489 GT | 8400 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Heidi | 94489 GT | 8400 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Rania | 94489 GT | 8400 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2006 | MSC Maria Elena ( MSC Fiorenza ) | 107849 GT | 9178 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service; not identical to MSC Elena (1994, second hand, out of service) |
| 2007 | MSC Sylvana | 107,200 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2007 | MSC Candice | 107,200 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2007 | MSC Pina | 107,200 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2007 | MSC Asya | 107,200 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Emanuela | 107849 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Kalina | 107849 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Gaia | 107849 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Eva | 107849 GT | 9580 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Soraya | 59054 GT | 5762 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Oriane | 59054 GT | 5762 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2008 | MSC Krystal | 59054 GT | 5762 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2009 | MSC Daniela | 107849 GT | 13,000 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2009 | MSC Beatrice | 107849 GT | 13,000 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2009 | MSC Bettina | 107849 GT | 13798 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2009 | MSC Irene | 107849 GT | 14,000 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Oscar | 193,000 GT | 19224 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Oliver | 193,000 GT | 19224 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Zoe | 193,000 GT | 19224 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Lily | 92500 GT | 8819 TEU | New Times Shipbuilding, Jingjiang | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Elodie | 92500 GT | 8819 TEU | New Times Shipbuilding, Jingjiang | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Naomi | 92500 GT | 8819 TEU | New Times Shipbuilding, Jingjiang | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Julie | 92500 GT | 8819 TEU | New Times Shipbuilding, Jingjiang | in service |
| 2015 | MSC Anzu | 92500 GT | 8819 TEU | New Times Shipbuilding, Jingjiang | in service |
| 2016 | MSC Jade | 194 308 GT | 19437 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | in service |
| 2019 | MSC Gülsün | 232618 GT | 23,500 TEU | Samsung Shipbuilding, Goeje | in service |
| 2019 | MSC Mina | 232618 GT | 23,500 TEU | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | in service |
Scrapping of disused MSC ships
According to Public Eye, 80 disused ships of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) are said to have been scrapped on the beaches of India and Bangladesh from 2009 to 2018 , where they partially polluted the coast and endangered workers in the shipbuilding yards . In contrast, MSC was named the most environmentally friendly shipping company of the year at the Green Shipping Summit in Amsterdam in October 2018 .
literature
- AM de Schipper, JM Janse: MSC: Mediterranean Shipping Company SA - Over 30 years of success . Jaap Janse, chapel, 2003
Web links
- Official website of Mediterranean Shipping Company SA
- Official MSC Cruises website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Pierre Kapp: The shipping companies cannot keep up with the demand. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 9, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2019.
- ↑ New bulker building for MSC . In: Daily port report from October 23, 2012
- ↑ Christian Müssgens, Johannes Ritter: Threatening pact of the giants . faz.net, December 4, 2013, accessed April 25, 2014
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: P3-Aus: "JadeWeserPort has opportunities" . In: Daily port report from June 19, 2014, p. 15
- ^ Alliance. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed on May 31, 2017 .
- ↑ MSC commande 11 replies de 22,000 EPP. September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
- ↑ About Us | MSC. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Mærsk - www.maersk.com: An integrated transport & logistics company. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 6, 2017 ; Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
- ↑ PSA Antwerp ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MSC Al Amine - Cedre. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
- ^ Magic pipe incident draws huge fine ( Memento December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , AllBusiness, January 1, 2006
- ^ Siddharth Philip: Mumbai Port Partially Re-Opens as Work Clearing Shed Containers Continues , Bloomberg, August 12, 2010
- ↑ MSC Chitra - Cedre. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Res Gehrige: The long oil slick the Geneva shipping company , Info Sperber , January 25, 2012 accessed on January 3 of 2019.
- ↑ Sharon Udasin: Haifa court imposes highest ever fine for oil spill , The Jerusalem Post, October 23, 2011
- ↑ Container recovery turns out to be difficult - Havariekommando coordinates search and recovery work. (PDF; 28 kB) Press release No. 5. Havariekommando, January 4, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Disaster of the "MSC Zoe": Microplastic on Borkum. In: ndr.de. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
- ^ Accident off Borkum: 220 of 280 containers located. wdr.de, January 7, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Christoph Donauer and dpa: TV, toys and plastic waste on the beach. In: Stimme.de . January 4, 2019, accessed January 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Giant freighter loses 270 containers in a stormy North Sea. In: watson.ch . January 2, 2019, accessed January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Bijna 300 containers na zware storm in zee bij Waddeneilanden, sommige bevatten toxic substances. In: Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie . January 2, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 (Dutch).
- ↑ North Sea disaster: Dutch army is supposed to clean up beaches. In: tt.com. January 3, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 (Dutch).
- ↑ "MSC Zoe" lost far more containers than expected orf.at, February 6, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019.
- ↑ Volker Kölling: MSC Zoe: You want to retrieve containers - and fish for rubbish. In: butenunbinnen.de . March 3, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Gie Goris and Nicola Mulinaris: Where Ships Hide To Die (January 2019). publiceye.ch , accessed on April 1, 2019 .
