China COSCO Shipping Corp Ltd, France's CMA CGM SA, Taiwan-based Evergreen Line and Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line announced a new shipping partnership, OCEAN Alliance on April 19, 2016 to challenge 2M－the world's largest container carrier alliance.

Let us take a look at the top 10 shipping companies in the world by container ship fleet capacity as of March 22, 2016, according to the statista.com.

No 10 United Arab Shipping Co (564,117 TEUs)

No 9 Orient Overseas Container Line (565,113 TEUs)

No 8 Hanjin Shipping (621,243 TEUs)

No 7 Hamburg Sud Group (646,918 TEUs) 

No 6 Hapag-Lloyd (916,439 TEUs) 

No 5 Evergreen Line (929,700 TEUs)

No 4 COSCO (1.54 million TEUs)

No 3 CMA CGM (1.79 million TEUs)

No 2 Mediterranean Shipping (2.66 million TEUs)

No 1 Maersk Line (3.01 million TEUs)

（Source: chinadaily.com.cn）