Oceans and waterways are important transport routes for cruise and cargo ships worldwide. In terms of global merchandise, the volume of seaborne trade almost doubled over the past two decades to reach around 11 billion tons loaded. The upward trend correlates with the advent of containerized trade and the streamlining of supply chains between container ports globally. Asia is home to the leading container port locations worldwide: Shanghai and Singapore. By 2021, container throughput at ports is expected to come to around 860 million twenty-foot equivalent units worldwide.
Number of vessels fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) worldwide from 2007 to 2020, with a forecast through 2023
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The maritime shipping industry produces around 700 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized United Nations agency, continues to grow efforts to put a halt to a general growing trend in emissions. The IMO introduced a sulfur cap in 2020. As a result, ship operators increased the demand for emission abatement systems in vessels and began switching from using heavy fuel oil to low sulphur fuel oil.
Green maritime shipping worldwideLeading ship operator's share of the world liner fleet as of April 16, 2024
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The largest container ship operator is A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S. The Denmark-based company has vessels with a combined capacity of around four million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in its fleet and holds around 16 percent of the global container shipping fleet. Hoping for improved cost control and capacity utilization, Mærsk partnered up with MSC in 2015 to form the 2M alliance but this alliance will end in 2025. Mærsk’s revenue reached almost 82 billion U.S. dollars in 2022.
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The water transport category offers data on cargo shipping by sea as well as the movement of cargo by ships and barges on inland waterways. Within this sector, Statista focuses on seaborne trade routes, the merchant fleet, freight rates, and the leading ports worldwide. Information about the different vessel types used in water transport to move various types of commodities is also available. All of this information is complemented with rankings of freight forwarders and ports.
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