Leading ocean freight forwarders worldwide based on TEUs 2021

In 2021, Kuehne + Nagel was ranked the world's leading ocean freight forwarder, with over 4.6 million twenty-foot equivalent units of ocean freight.

Kuehne + Nagel – additional information

Headquartered in Switzerland, Kuehne + Nagel was founded in 1890 in Bremen, Germany. At the present time, Kuehne + Nagel Group has offices in more than 100 countries and employs approximately 78,000 people. In the fiscal year 2021, the company generated roughly 36.7 billion Swiss francs from its worldwide operations, and over 5.3 billion Swiss francs from its operations in Asia Pacific. Between the fiscal year of 2013 and 2021, the operational expenses of Kuehne + Nagel increased somewhat continuously, reaching 6.2 billion Swiss francs in 2021.

The ocean freight market

Between 1990 and 2020, the seaborne trade transport volume more than doubled, reaching 10.65 billion metric tons. In 2020, 1.85 billion metric tons of international seaborne trade were transported by container ships. As of January 2021, Panama possessed the largest merchant fleet by operator domicile globally, with 343.6 million tons deadweight.