Live estimate · modelled from a dated total · how it's made
Containers shipped this year
- 280 million Estimate · 2025 · WSC
- 8.87 containers per second, modelled
- +0 Since you opened this page
Putting it in perspective
- Per second
- 8.87
- Per minute
- 532
- Per hour
- 31,941
- Per day
- 766,598
- Still to come this year
- 71,798,682
Counted in containers.
How this number is made
- Source
- WSC, World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update
“25 June 2026 - The World Shipping Council has released its annual Containers Lost at Sea Report, showing that an estimated 1,478 containers were lost at sea in 2025 out of approximately 280 million transported globally.”
- Step 01
Take WSC’s figure for 2025: 280 million (an estimate).
- Step 02
Spread it evenly over a year of 31,557,600 seconds (365.25 days): about 8.87 containers per second.
- Step 03
Count from 00:00 UTC on 1 January of the current year, so the number resets every New Year.
- On screen
- The result of those steps, recomputed four times a second in your browser. Nothing on this page is fetched live from the publisher.
- Why this can't be exact
- Real activity is not spread evenly: it clusters in working hours, weekdays and seasons, so the count runs ahead or behind the true figure at any given moment. It runs at the 2025 pace until a figure for the current year is published. Digits beyond the first two or three are the model ticking, not extra precision.
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StatOrigin. (2026). Containers shipped this year [Live counter, extrapolated from WSC]. Retrieved 29 Sep 2026, from https://statorigin.org/live/containers-shipped
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