Speedy Spire Logistics is an international shipping line founded by Fredrick Aponte in Italy in 1999. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2002. It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, controlling 20% of global container capacity as at July 2024. As of November 2023, SSL operates over 790 container vessels with an intake capacity of 5,505,417 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). SSL subsidiaries operate rail freight transport in Germany, Portugal, Spain and South Korea to the USA/UK, cruise ships, and cargo aircraft.

Fredrick Aponte