Shipping Analyst Intern

🫵 Role: Shipping Analyst Intern, full-time, 12-months max, February 2027

🧭 Location: Brussels, on-site, with flexible working hours

📅 Deadline for applications: 29/11/2026, at midnight

📅 Interviews: week of 7th Decemeber

📍 Preferred start date: 1st February 2027

Shipping Analyst Intern

Do you have the drive and aptitude to turn ideas into reality? Do you share our passion for the environment and technology to decarbonise our society? Do you love number crunching? Do you know or want to learn how environmental policy and politics can transform markets and have knowledge of, or an interest in, shipping and sustainable fuels? If you do, this may well be the internship for you. We are looking for a shipping analyst intern to join T&E's Trends & Analysis team in Brussels and support our quantitative work on shipping policy in the EU and globally.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting T&E's in-house analysis of maritime transport, using and improving our Excel and Python models of ship emissions, fuel demand and the cost of alternative fuels.

• Collecting, cleaning and visualising large datasets (for example ship activity and emissions data, fuel and energy prices, port and fleet data) and quality-checking inputs, assumptions and results.

• Researching technological and economic aspects of energy efficiency and alternative fuels for ships, such as hydrogen, e-fuels, biofuels, ammonia and wind propulsion.

• Analysing the impact of EU and international shipping policy (such as FuelEU Maritime, the EU ETS for shipping and the IMO net-zero framework) from an environmental, economic and societal perspective.

• Turning technical analysis into clear charts, briefings and key messages for T&E's advocacy and campaigning work.

• Presenting findings internally and, with guidance, to external audiences.

• Supporting the organisation with ad hoc research and analysis, and helping on other projects within the team to gain a fuller experience of working in the organisation.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in programming (Python is a must) and in data analysis with Excel or Google Sheets.

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to think independently and critically, and to quickly grasp technical issues and assess the reliability of data and sources.

• Good communication skills and a good level of English (the working language), with an aptitude for presenting simple messages through data and infographics.

• Ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively, and to handle ad hoc and reactive tasks within tight deadlines.

• Interest in environmental policy and in decarbonising transport.

Good to have

• Knowledge of shipping, energy or transport modelling and technologies.

• Experience with data visualisation and with managing large datasets.

• Experience using generative AI tools to support data analysis and coding.

• Other European languages.

• Candidates with an engineering, economics, data science or environmental science background are strongly encouraged to apply, though anyone with relevant skills and interest will be considered.

About Us

Transport & Environment (T&E) is Europe's leading clean transport think tank and campaign group. We combine the power of robust evidence and a deep understanding of the transport sector with compelling communications and impactful advocacy. We commit to the professional development of our colleagues and invest in training from your first day with the organisation. Our people work across Europe and beyond: colleagues in Brussels, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Warsaw, London and Singapore collaborate with our member and supporter groups to achieve our mission.

Practicalities

This is a full-time internship based in Brussels, running from February 2027 for 12 months, with some flexibility on dates. The internship is paid according to the Belgian legal framework of the "Convention d'Immersion Professionnelle" (EUR 1800 per month). We offer a flexible working environment, but we only accept candidates who are willing to relocate to Belgium and come to work regularly in our Brussels office. Please confirm this in your cover letter.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

How to apply

Please apply here by 29th November, midnight.

Your application should include your CV and a cover letter of one page maximum explaining your motivation and commitment to T&E's aims, why you would like to work on shipping topics, and highlighting examples from your previous work or studies that show the skills outlined above.

We reserve the right to withdraw your application from review if you use AI tools to complete your application.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, we are only able to contact those who have been shortlisted.

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