Breakbulk's Top 10 Companies

According to industry analyst Dynamar, the 10 largest breakbulk operators by deadweight of multipurpose/project/heavy-lift tonnage combined deployed a fleet of 460 ships as of early January 2018. The fleet of general cargo/multi-purpose shipts with or without cranes, has a total deadweight of 8,136,000 million tons and an aggregate lifting capability of 147,000 tons. The ships’ average age is 8 years.

1. Cosco SSC (Guangzhou) – 64 ships/1.758 mil dwt
2. BBC Chartering (Leer) – 146 ships/1.675 mil dwt
3. Spliethoff (Amsterdam) – 48 ships/0.778 mil dwt
4. Thorco (Cophenhagen) – 48 ships/0.754 mil dwt
5. Zeaborn (Bremen) – 42 ships/0.636 mil dwt
6. AAL (Singapore) – 21 ships/0.629 mil dwt
7. Chipolbrok (Shanghai, Chinese/Polish) – 20 ships/0.622 mil dwt
8. Intermarine (Houston) – 43 ships/0.485 mil dwt
9. MACS (Hamburg) – 13 ships/0.405 mil dwt
10. PACC Line (Singapore) – 15 ships/0.394 mil dwt

(MarEx)