Landlocked Switzerland becomes a top 10 shipowning nation thanks to Aponte’s MSC

One family has propelled a landlocked European nation into the top shipowning countries in the world. Gianluigi Aponte’s Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has been on a historic fleet expansion in the 2020s, hoovering up more than 400 secondhand boxships, and ordering more than 3m teu of newbuilds, pushing MSC to the top spot in …