Only 10 container ships, amounting to 5,454 TEU, were scrapped in the first six months of 2025, as the firm freight and charter markets encouraged owners and operators to keep trading old vessels.
In comparison, Alphaliner’s report today stated that 57 ships of 81,000 TEU were scrapped in 2024, including 34 ships of 48,600 TEU in the first half of that year.
Alphaliner remarked: “For carriers, keeping older tonnage going also resulted from lessons learnt from the multiple disruptions of the last few years (Covid, Red Sea, tariffs, congestion, strikes, strained supply chains), where having some fleet ‘overhang’ has been welcome to face unforeseen events.”
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