Sea-Intelligence: 2025 operating profit drops to USD 15.4bn
Despite the sharp Y/Y downturn, all reporting shipping lines managed to record positive 2025 EBIT figures. COSCO led the pack with 2025‑FY EBIT at USD 4.93bn, followed by Evergreen (USD 2.36bn), OOCL (USD 1.54bn), and Maersk (USD 1.39bn). Conversely, ONE and Yang Ming recorded the smallest operating profits at USD 459M and USD 472M, respectively.
Figure 1 illustrates the development in EBIT per TEU. The 2025 figures reveal a drastic Y/Y reduction across the board, with every single reporting carrier seeing their EBIT/TEU drop from 2024 levels. ONE experienced the sharpest drop, falling to just 36 USD/TEU.
However, focusing solely on the Y/Y decline masks an important historical reality: for most shipping lines, 2025 EBIT/TEU is still stronger than pre‑pandemic levels. ZIM (277 USD/TEU), HMM (257 USD/TEU), OOCL (195 USD/TEU), COSCO (180 USD/TEU), and Yang Ming (107 USD/TEU) all recorded a 2025 EBIT/TEU higher than any year they reported in 2010‑2019. Meanwhile, Hapag-Lloyd (83 USD/TEU) and Maersk (54 USD/TEU) are now operating at margins closely mirroring their historical averages from the 2010‑2019 decade. Ultimately, key financial metrics have settled at levels mirroring the early 2010s, keeping carriers well above the depressed market floors of the late 2010s.
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