Thin sample

Ship Segment

Container Ships Market

The box fleet — from feeders to ULCVs carrying the world’s manufactured goods in TEU.

Fleet

2,974

114.9M dwt

Average age

19.1 yrs

median 19 yrs

Orderbook / fleet

29 on order

Fleet

Fleet Structure

Tracked vessels2,974

Total deadweight114.9M dwt

Average age19.1 yrs

Median age19 yrs

Snapshot date2026-06-23

Age distribution

0-4144 (5%)

5-9307 (10%)

10-14404 (14%)

15-19750 (25%)

20-24606 (20%)

25+763 (26%)

Supply

Orderbook & Deployment

On order

—

Orderbook / fleet

on-order ÷ in-service

Net supply (1y)

−0.2%

— due 1y

Deployment

41.6% slow-steaming

45.1% idle

Pricing

Asset Value & Freight

Secondhand benchmark

—

too few recent sales

Freight index

—

no licensed index for this segment

TC-equivalent

—

not published

We do not yet carry a commercially-licensed container ship freight index, so the freight figures are intentionally left blank rather than estimated.

Recycling

Recycling Pressure

Median scrap age

30 yrs

structural curve

Demolished (12m)

vessels

LDT recycled (12m)

15k LDT

Scrap rate

0.1%

12m count ÷ fleet

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Recent sale & purchase deals

Freight Indices

Daily indices & TC earnings

Recycling Market

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This overview is a pure rollup over the same data behind our deep analytics pages — it fetches no new source, so it can never drift from them. Fleet, age and orderbook come from our tracked fleet and the orderbook feed; secondhand pricing is the outlier-screened trailing-365d median $/dwt; the freight index is shown under our own generic name (CONTAINER and GAS have no licensed index today and are left blank). Figures are honest to the underlying sample — a thin segment is flagged. Computed 2026-06-23.

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