Global number of container ships 2011-2022

Nearly 5,600 container ships were serving sea routes worldwide in 2022. China, Japan, and South Korea were the world's major shipbuilding nations in 2020.The global ocean fleet Over the past decade, the number of container ships in the the global fleet increased from 4,966 ships in 2011 to 5,589 ships in 2022, while the carrying capacity of the global merchant fleet reached roughly two billion deadweight tons in 2020. Based on the chartered twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), Mediterranean Shipping Co. is the leading container ship operator worldwide.The impact of COVID-19 on ports As of the beginning of March 2020, about 80 blank sailings were announced in global maritime traffic due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with China being the worst-hit region at the beginning. Between the Chinese New Year and mid-March, 108 blank sailings were announced on deep-sea shipping routes due to the pandemic. In Latin America, some ports were negatively affected, while others experienced a year-on-year increase in container traffic in the 1st quarter of 2020.

截至2022年，全球共有近5,600艘集装箱船服务于海上航线。在2020年，中国、日本和韩国是全球主要的造船国家。过去十年间，全球船队中的集装箱船数量从2011年的4,966艘增长至2022年的5,589艘，而全球商船队的载重能力在2020年达到了约20亿吨。基于租用的二十英尺当量单位（TEU），地中海航运公司是全球领先的集装箱船运营商。COVID-19疫情对港口的影响方面，截至2020年3月初，由于冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行，全球航运业宣布了约80次空航，其中中国是最初受影响最严重的地区。在春节期间至3月中旬，由于疫情，远洋航线宣布了108次空航。在拉丁美洲，部分港口受到负面影响，而另一些港口在2020年第一季度则实现了集装箱吞吐量的同比上升。