Singapore’s port achieved record highs in 2025, handling 44.66 million containers

The record highs achieved by Singapore’s port in 2025 highlight its role as a “choice port of call”, said Senior Minister of State for Law and Transport Murali Pillai.

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Singapore’s port achieved record highs in 2025, handling 44.66 million containers, an 8.6% increase from 2024, and 3.22 billion gross tons of vessel arrivals.
While cargo volume decreased by 1.4% to 614.34 million tonnes, bunker sales hit a new high of 56.77 million tonnes, driven by alternative fuels.
Singapore is focusing on digitalisation and decarbonisation, developing AI for administrative duties and becoming a multi-fuel bunkering hub with LNG standards.

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s port handled 44.66 million shipping containers, or twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), in 2025 – its highest on record – eclipsing the 41.12 million in the previous year.

This is an 8.6 per cent increase in the number of TEUs handled – the maritime industry’s standard gauge for container traffic – from 2024, said the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) on Jan 13.

Ship arrivals also reached a new peak, with annual vessel arrivals climbing to 3.22 billion gross tonnage, up 3.5 per cent from the 3.11 billion gross tonnage registered a year earlier Gross tonnage represents the combined internal volume of all ships in a year, including their engine room and non-cargo spaces.

It is a common maritime industry measure of vessel traffic calling at a port.

These figures underscore the Republic’s “enduring role as a choice port of call”, and its position as a global maritime and trade hub, Senior Minister of State for Law and Transport Murali Pillai said at the Singapore Maritime Foundation New Year Conversations.

The yearly maritime industry event was held at the Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay hotel.

Source :

Straight Times