Brunei Darussalam Maritime Transport Profile 2026
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
MARITIME TRANSPORT PROFILE
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Maritime assets
Port area in 2025
Ships built by country of building, annual
Merchant fleet by country of beneficial ownership, annual
Ship recycling
Trade - Navigation total
Water transport employment
Activity
Container port throughput
Port call and performance statistics
Trade mode share
Port Activity
Trade openness index
Seafarer supply
Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Import)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Import)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight Transport Expenditure in USD (Export)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Top 10 Freight transport work in thousand ton-km (Export)
Source: UNCTAD & World Bank. (n.d.). TransportCosts. UN Trade & Development Data Hub - Trade-and-Transport Dataset, Annual, 2016 Onward. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/dataviewer/US.TransportCosts
Connectivity and performance
LPI
Liner shipping connectivity index
Port liner shipping connectivity index
Bilateral liner shipping connectivity index
Trade cost
Container port performance index
Remoteness index
Sustainable freight transport index
Percent of firms identifying transport as a major constraint
Shipping emissions
EDGAR GHG 2025
Transport energy consumption
EDGAR AP 8.1
GAINS emissions
Adaptation and resilience
Hazard exposure
Average annual loss
Port risk
Maritime-related disasters
Investment on ports
Development financing
Private participation in infrastructure
Policy Targets
Shipping improvement - General
| Strategic Plan for Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications | 2020 | 3 new maritime and ports related businesses established by 2025 | 2025 |
Policy Measures
| Second Voluntary National Review - BRN | Shipping port infrastructure improvements | The country is also enhancing its port industry among which, through the Muara Port Company (MPC), Brunei Darussalam is doubling its capacity to accommodate increased future volume from local industries and international cargoes. Quay length would be expanded from 250 metres to 500 metres to accommodate two vessels at a time, increasing port capacity to handle 500,000 TEUs from 250,000 TEUs per annum by 2026. | 2023 |
| Strategic Plan for Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications | Shipping improvement - General | 3 new maritime and ports related businesses established by 2025 | 2020 |
| Review to Formulate a Roadmap and Draft National Masterplan for a Sustainable Land Transportation System for Brunei Darussalam | Inland waterways (IWT) improvement - General | Encourage public transport services by water bus and water taxi in BSB and other areas of Brunei as appropriate, with the focus on maintaining health and safety standards, improving vessel quality, comfort and enhancing landing points to provide interchange with other transport modes for onward connections. | 2014 |
| Review to Formulate a Roadmap and Draft National Masterplan for a Sustainable Land Transportation System for Brunei Darussalam | Rural transport infrastructure | Completion of defined rural road, water transport and other transport infrastructure and services | 2014 |
| Review to Formulate a Roadmap and Draft National Masterplan for a Sustainable Land Transportation System for Brunei Darussalam | Rural transport services | Enhancement of Demand Responsive Transport and local service provision in rural areas in line with technology development | 2014 |