Record-shattering year for Singapore: new highs for tonnage, TEU and bunkers

2025 was by all measures a record-shattering year for the Port of Singapore, which set new highs for vessel arrivals, container throughput and bunker sales.

The world’s largest transhipment hub achieved a record of 3.2Bn gross tonnage (gt) of vessel arrivals and 44.7M TEU of container throughput in 2025. These new highs were achieved despite a year marked by tariffs, trade wars, regional conflicts and geopolitical uncertainty.

Year-on-year, vessel arrivals (in gt) grew 3.5%, climbing from 3.1Bn to 3.2Bn gt and container throughput, 8.6%, growing from 41.1M to 44.7M TEU.

Marine bunker sales reached a record 56.8M tonnes – a 3.4% jump from 2024. Drilling down further into bunker sales, the Port of Singapore continues to fuel shipping’s transition to lower carbon-intensity fuels. While conventional marine fuels still represent almost 97.0% of the port’s bunker sales by volume, sales of biofuels, LNG and methanol jumped during the year, demonstrating a desire among owners to use new fuels to reduce CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions, while revealing the growing number of ships equipped with dual-fuel engine technology entering the global fleet.

Sales of alternative fuels (biofuels, LNG and methanol) reached 1.9M tonnes in 2025, up from 1.3M tonnes in 2024. Biofuel sales increased 56.2% to 1.4M tonnes, LNG, 23.9% to 571,000 tonnes and methanol, 87.5%, to 3,000 tonnes. No ammonia sales were recorded by the port during the year. This could well change this year, with the first ships equipped with ammonia dual-fuel engines entering service.

Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Law and Transport, Murali Pillai, announced the port’s performance during the annual Singapore Maritime Foundation New Year Conversations event on 13 January.

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