Maritime emissions under pressure as container voyages rise and rerouting persists

Containership freight rates on major routes from January to September 2025.

Global containership activity remained resilient in Q3 2025, with 73,353 voyages completed—2.3% more than a year earlier—while total emissions held broadly steady at 50.3 million tons. The report shows how routing disruptions, regulatory uncertainty and changing trade flows shaped emissions intensity across vessel sizes, routes and shipbuilding origins. Rerouting around the Cape of Good Hope continued to inflate fuel use […]

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