Containers transported by sea
RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XCD-ABV5TTJ4FY-0D2293
Global · 2025
Containers transported by sea worldwide was 280 million in 2025 (WSC).
Containers transported by sea: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- WSC
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
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.
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Cite this figure
APA
World Shipping Council. (2025). World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-releases-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2026-update. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D2293
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- World Shipping Council. "World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update." 2025, https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-releases-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2026-update. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D2293.
- Chicago
- World Shipping Council. "World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update." 2025. https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-releases-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2026-update. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D2293.
- BibTeX
- @misc{wsc2025containers0d2293, author = {{World Shipping Council}}, title = {World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D2293}, note = {Original source: https://www.worldshipping.org/news/world-shipping-council-releases-containers-lost-at-sea-report-2026-update. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Provenance and verification
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Primary source
- Publisher
- World Shipping Council · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National and industry official
- Report
- World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- World Shipping Council releases Containers Lost at Sea Report: 2026 Update
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XCDABV5TTJ4FY0D2293