Container ship · Malta flag · built 2009
APL CALIFORNIA: CO₂ emissions 2018–2025
IMO 9350044 EU ETS6 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 12,800 t
- Fuel burned
- 4,066 t
- Distance
- 19,422 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,285 h
- Emitted at berth
- 4% of total
- Share of year under way
- 15%
- Gross tonnage
- 71,787
APL CALIFORNIA against its type
Built in 2009, it is 1 year newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 71,787 gross tonnage it is larger than 63% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 336 container ships here under the Malta flag, 9.6% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 98 other vessels here, 35 of them container ships. The returns for 2018–2025 all give VALLETTA as port of registry.
Its 12,800 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 22% below the median of 16,359 t among the 2,234 container ships on this register that reported for 2025. Per nautical mile it emitted 659.1 kg CO₂, 21% above the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 1,285 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 4.3% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.2%. Across 6 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2018 (33,706 t) and the lowest 2023 (4,391 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 44 in 2018 to 50 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 5 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 5 reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile than this vessel.
Emissions by year2018–2025
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,800 | 4,066 | 19,422 | 1,285 | 547 | 659.1 | 14.3 | 50 |
| 2023 | 4,391 | 1,406 | 5,994 | 404 | 38 | 732.5 | 15.5 | 45 |
| 2021 | 24,997 | 7,998 | 29,597 | 1,663 | 1,270 | 844.6 | 18.6 | 57 |
| 2020 | 25,293 | 8,065 | 32,626 | 1,843 | 1,081 | 775.2 | 14.3 | 44 |
| 2019 | 18,424 | 5,906 | 25,554 | 1,472 | 1,382 | 721.0 | 13.7 | 35 |
| 2018 | 33,706 | 10,808 | 39,619 | 2,399 | 1,377 | 850.8 | 17.1 | 44 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9350044
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 71,787
- Length overall
- 293.2 m
- Year built
- 2009
- Flag state
- Malta per EU MRV 2025
- Port of registry
- VALLETTA MRV 2025
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (12.5 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Japan
- Accreditation
- VS-21325-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-01-23
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 925 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 50th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 14.3.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 894,513,627 tonne-miles over 19,422 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 62.0% lower than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only. No return is recorded for 2022, 2024, so the series has gaps.
From 2023 to 2025, emissions rose 191.5% while distance sailed rose 224.0%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 10.0%.That points mainly to how much the vessel sailed, rather than the other.
Where the 2025 emissions occurred
Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025
- Total CO₂ equivalent
- 13,000 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.20 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.73 t
- Under EU ETS
- 7,467 t, 58% of total
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2018–2025, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0).
This page draws on 6 MRV reporting years, an efficiency ranking and 5 of 5 vessel particulars. Not found in the sources for this vessel: AIS movements in Norwegian waters, a name history, a licensed photograph, a sanctions listing and US port state inspections.
Empty means unreported, never zero. How EEOI, distance, percentiles and sister ships are handled is explained under reading a vessel page. Something wrong? See corrections.