Container Ships Market
The box fleet: from feeders to ULCVs carrying the world’s manufactured goods in TEU.
Fleet
2,974
Average age
19.1 yrs
Orderbook / fleet
0.7%
Secondhand
$801 /dwt
Fleet
Fleet Structure
Age distribution
Supply
Orderbook & Deployment
On order
20
Orderbook / fleet
0.7%
Net supply (1y)
−2%
Deployment
40.4% slow-steaming
Pricing
Asset Value & Freight
Secondhand benchmark
$801 /dwt
Freight index
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TC-equivalent
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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
24 yrs
Demolished (12m)
9
LDT recycled (12m)
27k LDT
Scrap rate
0.3%
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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 2026-10-15.