Large part of container fleet on extra slow steaming

Currently, 93 per cent of the Far East–North Europe loops and 80 per cent of the Far East–Mediterranean loops have adopted Extra Slow Steaming,ESS, French Alphaliner estimates.
On the Pacific the figures are somewhat lower as 50 per cent of the FE–US West Coast loops and 76 per cent of the FE–US East Coast loops are slow steaming.