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Top 25 Container shipping lines based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,220 container shipping lines headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 22,969 professional contacts across them, including 6,949 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers container shipping lines headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest container shipping lines based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,324 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global trade has always depended on the port and since 1847 Inchcape Shipping Services has provided the local knowledge and means to deliver port calls that enable business to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,701 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Starting with a single ship, Zodiac Maritime has grown into one of the world's largest and most respected shipping companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 856 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Central to growing the UK’s economy, logistics and sustainability journey, we are driven by a vision to become the industry leader for safety, performance and sustainable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through two decades of investment, innovation, and growth, Maritime Transport has evolved from small beginnings into a leading logistics business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 558 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're proud to be forward thinkers, as well as forward movers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Davies Turner - Your worldwide Freight and Logistics partner As an International Freight Forwarder, Davies Turner can arrange to move your cargo to any International destination…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Suttons Group is a successful, privately owned company built on consistently delivering high-quality and cost-effective supply chain services with an uncompromising focus on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Metro power the supply chains of leading global brands and manufacturers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air Menzies International (AMI) was established in 1976 to provide wholesale Airfreight and Express services to forwarders, customs brokers, and courier agents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Union Maritime is a leading provider of smart shipping solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mentfield Logistics Group provides international freight forwarding, shipping, warehousing, customs brokerage and customs clearance, including all relevant logistic services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GBA Logistics is an experienced and insightful logistics company that uses its knowledge to deliver trusted, confident, and reliable transportation solutions with our own fleet of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Simarco is one of the UK’s leading independent freight groups with a proud heritage spanning 3 decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Carisbrooke Shipping.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cory Brothers Limited has been a trusted supply chain partner for over 180 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ziegler UK Limited is an established international provider of multimodal transport by Air, Sea and Road, supported by a strong network throughout Europe and extending across all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the largest multimodal port in the South East and 3rd largest port in the UK, we do much more than simply manage cargo passing through our port, we offer bespoke supply chain…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quality Freight Services Limited - Global Freight Forwarding Specialists” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Baxter Freight is a B Corp™ Certified, AEO approved, customer service driven logistics provider, specialising in delivering tailored freight solutions worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AGI Global Logistics are an international freight forwarding company, with a goal of supplying our customers with the most personal, flexible, seamless and competitive product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha is one of the world's leading transportation companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CCL is a specialist gateway logistics service provider handling all aspects of importation and exportation, gateway customs clearance and compliance, warehousing, break bulk and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALPI UK is part of the Albini & Pitigliani Group, an international freight forwarding and logistics organisation with over 80 years of experience delivering supply chain solutions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Logicall UK delivers multi-modal freight solutions to more than importers and exporters across the UK, Europe, Asia and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hemisphere is an all-encompassing global logistics provider and has grown to become one of the largest UK providers of logistics solutions across Europe, Asia, North America…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: container shipping lines. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names container shipping lines.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of container shipping lines, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name container shipping lines. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Container shipping lines based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,220 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among container shipping lines, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “container shipping lines”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names container shipping lines), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among container shipping lines, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,949 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names container shipping lines, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many container shipping lines are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,220 container shipping lines headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Inchcape Shipping Services, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most container shipping lines?
London leads with 195 headquartered companies, followed by Felixstowe (46) and Manchester (42).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,949 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,220 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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