European Maritime Transport Environmental Report EMTER 2025

The second edition of European Maritime Transport Environmental Report examines the progress made towards achieving Europe’s decarbonisation targets and environmental goals, while indicating the most important trends, key challenges, and opportunities in the sustainability transition of the maritime transport sector. Since the first edition of the report was published in 2021, progress has been made in various domains at EU level, including reducing sulphur emissions from ships, lower levels of recorded marine litter generated by fisheries and shipping, increased reporting of waste deliveries from ships, and a decrease in the number of invasive alien species in European marine ecosystems. However, continued efforts are essential to maintain this momentum and ensure sustained progress toward greening the sector. At the same time, the EU has updated the climate legislation linked to the maritime sector in the context of the European Green Deal. The ‘Fit for 55’ package saw the extension of the Emissions Trading System to the maritime transport sector, legislation seeking to increase the uptake of sustainable fuels through the FuelEU Maritime Regulation, the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation, the Energy Taxation Directive, and the Renewable Energy Directive