“As of end August 2025, 534 containerships are on order which will be able to use alternative fuels upon delivery. These represent 53% of containerships on order and 77% of the TEU,”
Source: BIMCO
“As of end August 2025, 534 containerships are on order which will be able to use alternative fuels upon delivery. These represent 53% of containerships on order and 77% of the TEU,” says Niels Rasmussen, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO.
In addition to these alternatively-fueled ships, the order book also includes 321 ships that will use heavy fuel and another 155 ships that will be delivered ready for a future conversion to alternative fuels.
Alternative fuels have proven particularly popular for the largest ships while orders for smaller alternatively-fueled ships lag behind. For ships with 8,000 TEU capacity or more, 81% of the ships and 85% of the TEU capacity on order are for alternatively-fueled ships.
“Despite an increase in orders for alternatively-fueled ships in recent years, the other three main shipping sectors still lag behind the container sector in this respect. In the bulker, crude tanker and product tanker sectors, alternatively-fueled ships only make up only respectively 8%, 17% and 9% of the
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