France-based CMA CGM is the world's third-largest container carrier by capacity, controlling ~12% of global box shipping and shaping freight rates on every major trade lane.
Denmark's A.P. Møller - Mærsk is the world's second-largest container carrier and the industry's bellwether for how chokepoints, freight rates, and logistics integration interact.
full dossier ›The weekly spot price for shipping a 40-foot steel container across major global trade lanes, the fastest-moving public indicator of disruption to seaborne trade.
Hamburg-based Hapag-Lloyd AG is Germany's largest container line and the world's fifth-largest, whose fleet routing decisions at Suez and Hormuz transmit directly into global freight costs.
Five carriers control two-thirds of global box capacity; spot rates tracked weekly by the Shanghai index ripple into the price of virtually every traded good.