ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. ZIM

What this company does

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. offers door-to-door and port-to-port container transportation services to end-users, consolidators and freight forwarders, through a network of more than 200 offices and agencies in more than 100 countries. As of December 31, 2025, it operated a fleet of 128 vessels and chartered in approximately 86.4% of its TEU capacity and 87.5% of the vessels in its fleet. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 6,700 full-time employees worldwide, including contract workers. It is headquartered in Haifa, Israel. It operates logistics subsidiaries in, among other places, China, Canada, Brazil, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States, which are asset-light and provide services such as land transportation, customs brokerage, less-than-container-load consolidation, project cargo and air freight services. It serves approximately 30,500 customers, and in 2025 its 10 largest customers accounted for approximately 12% of freight revenues while its 50 largest customers accounted for approximately 27%. It operates across five geographic trade zones: Transpacific, Atlantic, Cross Suez, Intra-Asia and Latin America. Founded in Israel in 1945, the company purchased its first ship in 1947.

Written from the business description in ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 9 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.