New VesselBot Data Analysis Shows the True Emissions Gap Across Container Shipping in International Shipping News 15/05/2026 VesselBot has released its latest quarterly analysis, Decoding Maritime Emissions Q1 2026: Efficiency Under Pressure, examining container shipping operations across 82,212 voyages completed by 6,187 container-carrying vessels during the first quarter of 2026. The report provides a voyage-level analysis of emissions performance across vessel sizes, carriers, age groups, trade routes, and individual carriers, revealing why fleet-wide averages fail to reflect the operational reality of individual shipments. The findings give shippers and their logistics teams the operational visibility needed to make more informed operational decisions to optimize both transportation costs and emissions performance. The analysis comes as container shipping faces mounting pressure from geopolitical disruption, tightening emissions regulation, and increasingly volatile trade flows. Key findings from the report include: • Fleet averages mask a significant difference in emissions intensity Average Well-to-Wake emissions intensity across all Q1 2026 voyages reached 208.2 g CO₂e per TEU-km. Within that same quarter, only Feeder containerships exceeded the quarterly average intensity, by reaching 266 g CO₂e per TEU km, while all other container ships categories operated at substantially lower intensities. The difference is structural, driven by vessel size, cargo utilization, and distance traveled. Any logistics decision based on a fleet average is, by definition, built on a figure that no individual shipment will match. • A small share of global fleet performs the majority of transport work. NeoPanamax vessels and Very Large Container Ships accounted for only 6.6% of all voyages, yet generated 41.3% of total transport work during Q1 2026. By contrast, Feeder containerships carried out the majority of voyages (64.5%) while contributing only 27.7% of total transport work