The country does not even have its own access to the sea and is still the largest container ship in the world-er. Switzerland. She even managed to take China and Germany, because the world’s largest shipping company is located in the neutral neighboring country.
The fact that Switzerland actually comes first is shown in the gross area (BRZ) – the size of the total size of a ship. The BRZ of the Swiss control ships is 34.7 million BRZ. China is in second place with 31 million BRZ and third place reaches Germany with 30.2 million BRZ. Until now, Germany was in first place.
The world’s largest shipping company is in Switzerland
But why did Switzerland achieve the largest container shipnation? It is up to one company: the world’s largest shipping company that is located in the Swiss city of Geneva. It is called Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and is so great because she has arrived the Harbor Logistian HHLA in Hamburg and eventually bought German container ships, as president of the Association of Deutscher Reeder (VDR), Gaby Bornheim.
According to VDR all-way director Martin Kröger, the fact that China has also passed Germany is mainly due to the Inner Asian, which China serves with many small container ships.
Source: Krone
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