Swiss Lions 100 | Provisional 2026 edition
MSC
MSC is No. 9 in the Swiss Lions 100 and No. 1 in Other Services, with a score of 69.0 out of 100. Headquarters: Geneva, canton of Geneva.
- Swiss Lions score
- 69.0
- Overall rank
- 9of 100
- Other Services
- 1of 12
About
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line part of MSC Group. It was founded by Italian entrepreneur Gianluigi Aponte and his wife Rafaela Aponte-Diamant in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte-Diamant family with its headquarters in the suburb of Champel, Geneva, Switzerland, since 1978. It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, controlling 21.2% of global container capacity as of November 2025.
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How the score is made
Global scale
CHF 81.2bn e revenue.
Swiss value
Swiss headquarters.
Prominence
Wikipedia attention across language editions, and Google search interest.
Impact
No current SBTi target. Not a certified B Corp.
Philanthropy
Corporate foundation: MSC Foundation.
Key figures
- Revenue used in the ranking
- CHF 81.2bn eFY2022, estimate
Not listed on a stock exchange, so profit, dividends and employee numbers are not published in a comparable form.
Employees in Switzerland and dividends paid to Swiss shareholders are not published consistently, so they are not shown.
Profile
- Headquarters
- GenevaCanton of Geneva
- Language region
- French-speaking
- Category
- Other Services
- Founded
- 1970
Nearby in the Swiss Lions 100
Also in Other Services
2AdeccoScore 68.5
3Kuehne+NagelScore 64.4
4AvoltaScore 60.1
5DKSHScore 59.8
6SWISSScore 57.7
7GlencoreScore 53.6
See all 12 brands in Other Services.
Sources
- Revenue used in the ranking: Wikipedia infobox (FY2022).
- Climate target: Science Based Targets initiative dashboard, October 2026.
- Foundations: Swiss commercial register (Zefix). B Corp: B Lab directory.
- Prominence: Wikimedia page views (October 2025 to September 2026) and Google Trends.
- Founded and website: Wikidata.
- Logo: Wikimedia Commons: Mediterranean Shipping Company logo.svg. Logos are trademarks of their owners.
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