This data-file models the total costs of shipping a container c10,000 nautical miles from China to the West.
Specifically, we calculate what freight rate is required to earn a 10% IRR on constructing a new 20,000 TEU container ship, based on the capital costs, fuel costs and other operating costs.
New emerging fuels can lower the CO2 intensity of shipping from their baseline of 0.15kg/TEU-mile by 60-90%, however this may come at the cost of re-inflating freight costs by 30%-3x.
Economics can be stress-tested in the data-file, varying vessel size, route length, fuel economy, utilization and other cost lines.