Italy ocean freight by the numbers
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connecting 13 countries.
The fastest scheduled transit is 16 days, the median scheduled transit is 42 days, and 9 in 10 sampled sailings complete within 58 days.
3% of the 74 sampled sailings are direct; the remainder route via a transshipment hub.
Figures describe 74 sailings sampled from 1 carrier API, last refreshed 5 April 2026.
Most-sampled trade lanes from Italy
| Partner country | Lanes sampled |
|---|---|
| US | 5 |
| CN | 4 |
| AU | 2 |
| DE | 2 |
| KR | 2 |
How these numbers are measured
Figures come from the ocean schedule APIs Shipzy integrates with: MSC. They describe the lanes Shipzy samples, not every sailing serving Italy.
The nightly sync sweeps nine global hub ports plus a set of regional template lanes, storing up to three sailings per lane, and refreshes one country per night. So coverage leans towards intercontinental routings, and the as-of date above can be several weeks old for smaller markets.
Transit figures are medians rather than averages, so a few multi-transshipment routings cannot distort them. Cutoff lead times exclude carrier-estimated cutoffs and any lead outside a 0–21 day window. Emissions figures are not published here, because only one carrier reports measured CO2; the rest are modelled from transit time and would restate transit days as emissions.
- Port-to-port lanes: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 5 April 2026.
- Countries connected: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 5 April 2026.
- Fastest transit: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 5 April 2026.
- Median transit: Median of 74 scheduled transit times. Median, not mean — a few multi-transshipment routings would distort an average.
- Direct sailings: Share of 74 sampled sailings with no transshipment. Carriers count legs slightly differently, so treat as indicative.
- Vessels seen: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 5 April 2026. Counted by vessel name, so spelling variants may inflate this slightly.