Hapag-Lloyd — container fleet

63 ships2.10 Mt CO₂ in 2025

The Hapag-Lloyd container fleet counts 63 ships reporting under the EU MRV regulation — the 5th largest reporting fleet — with a combined 2.10 Mt of verified CO₂ emissions in 2025. Every figure on this page comes from the yearly verified reports each ship files with EMSA.

Its total emissions went from 1.43 Mt of CO₂ in 2018 to 2.1 Mt in 2025, a trajectory that reflects both fleet size and operational efficiency choices such as slow steaming and vessel upgrades.

Hapag-Lloyd, heir to a Hamburg shipping lineage dating back to 1847, is the world's fifth-largest container line and has staked its position on quality over volume. Since February 2025 it operates its long-haul network in the Gemini Cooperation with Maersk, the industry's boldest bet on schedule reliability, built on hub-and-spoke routing. The company has also been an active fleet moderniser, retrofitting existing ships and ordering dual-fuel newbuildings.

Its MRV-reporting fleet is smaller than those of MSC or Maersk, but its verified emissions data matters disproportionately: Hapag-Lloyd publishes among the most detailed sustainability reporting in the industry and aims for net-zero fleet operations by 2045. Comparing its verified CO₂ intensity against the fleet average is one of the cleaner reads on what disciplined fleet management achieves.

Verified data reported under the EU MRV regulation (source: EMSA / THETIS-MRV).

Fleet CO₂ trend

#	Vessel	IMO	Registry	CO₂ 2025 (t)
1	Tihama	9736107	Hamburg	87,951
2	Barzan	9708851	Hamburg	81,816
3	Al Jasrah	9732321	MONROVIA	75,525
4	Al Dahna Express	9708825	Hamburg	73,603
5	Al Mashrab	9732319	MONROVIA	71,281
6	Al Nefud	9708813	Hamburg	70,839
7	Bangkok Express	9943889	HAMBURG	70,761
8	Al Muraykh	9708863	Hamburg	69,859
9	Damietta Express	9543108	HAMBURG	69,360
10	Manila Express	9540120	Hamburg	68,074
11	Hamburg Express	9943865	HAMBURG	67,618
12	Busan Express	9540144	HAMBURG	66,993
13	Al Nasriyah	9708849	Hamburg	66,906
14	Gdansk Express	9943877	HAMBURG	62,648
15	Linah	9708801	Hamburg	61,606
16	Al Murabba	9708837	Monrovia	61,548
17	Afif	9732345	Hamburg	60,926
18	Berlin Express	9540118	Hamburg	57,821
19	Rotterdam Express	9943891	HAMBURG	54,749
20	Umm Qarn	9732333	Hamburg	53,790
21	Genova Express	9943906	HAMBURG	51,325
22	Brussels Express	9708784	Hamburg	50,319
23	Al Zubara	9708875	Hamburg	48,925
24	Salahuddin	9708796	Monrovia	43,813
25	Suape Express	9332858	MONROVIA	43,653
26	Wilhelmshaven Express	9943918	HAMBURG	43,370
27	Al Jmeliyah	9732357	Hamburg	41,198
28	Singapore Express	9543093	HAMBURG	40,711
29	Guayaquil Express	9777620	Hamburg	40,596
30	Santos Express	9777632	Hamburg	38,996
31	Valparaiso Express	9777589	Hamburg	37,113
32	Cartagena Express	9777618	Hamburg	35,283
33	Callao Express	9777606	Hamburg	34,991
34	Hanoi Express	9540132	Hamburg	32,406
35	Jakarta Express	9539688	MONROVIA	32,334
36	Sofia Express	9450404	Monrovia	30,483
37	Al Dhail	9732307	Monrovia	22,445
38	Ludwigshafen Express	9613018	Hamburg	16,771
39	Osaka Express	9320697	Monrovia	16,172
40	Chicago Express	9295268	Hamburg	15,249
41	Leverkusen Express	9613006	Monrovia	13,746
42	Ulsan Express	9613020	Monrovia	12,966
43	Prague Express	9450399	Monrovia	7,754
44	Colombo Express	9295244	Monrovia	0
45	Kyoto Express	9295256	Monrovia	0
46	Tsingtao Express	9320702	Monrovia	0
47	Hanover Express	9343716	Monrovia	0
48	Bremen Express	9343728	Monrovia	0
49	Kuala Lumpur Express	9343730	Hamburg	0
50	Nagoya Express	9450428	Monrovia	0
51	Frankfurt Express	9450442	Monrovia	0
52	Dortmund Express	9461051	Monrovia	0
53	Vienna Express	9450416	Monrovia	0
54	Basle Express	9501344	Hamburg	0
55	Hong Kong Express	9501356	Hamburg	0
56	Shanghai Express	9501368	Monrovia	0
57	Essen Express	9501370	Monrovia	0
58	New York Express	9501332	Monrovia	0
59	Budapest Express	9450430	Monrovia	0
60	Montevideo Express	9520041	Hamburg	0
61	Buenos Aires Express	9932476	Hamburg	0
62	Rio De Janeiro Express	9508902	Hamburg	0
63	Antwerpen Express	9612997	Hamburg	0

Frequently asked questions

How many ships does the Hapag-Lloyd fleet operate?

63 container ships operated by Hapag-Lloyd reported verified emissions data under the EU MRV regulation in 2025. Ships that did not call European ports that year are not included.

How much CO₂ does the Hapag-Lloyd fleet emit?

The Hapag-Lloyd container fleet emitted 2.10 Mt of verified CO₂ in 2025 on voyages within the EU MRV scope, as reported to EMSA and verified by accredited third parties.