Chemical tanker · Norway flag · built 2020
BOW EXPLORER: CO₂ emissions 2020–2025
IMO 9828211 EU ETS5 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 8,938 t
- Fuel burned
- 2,843 t
- Distance
- 25,863 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,886 h
- Emitted at berth
- 9% of total
- Share of year under way
- 22%
- Gross tonnage
- 29,627
BOW EXPLORER against its type
Built in 2020, it is 10 years newer than the median chemical tanker on this register, which was built in 2010 (1,951 vessels with a known build year). At 29,627 gross tonnage it is larger than 78% of the other 1,899 chemical tankers with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 95 chemical tankers here under the Norway flag, 4.1% of the 2,344 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 204 other vessels here, 11 of them chemical tankers. The returns for 2020–2025 all give BERGEN as port of registry.
Its 8,938 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 1.6 times the median of 5,533 t among the 1,483 chemical tankers on this register that reported for 2025. Per nautical mile it emitted 345.6 kg CO₂, 38% above the type median of 250.2 kg. It logged 1,886 hours at sea against a median of 2,109 hours for its type that year. 9.4% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for chemical tankers was 6.6%. Across 5 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2024 (12,970 t) and the lowest 2020 (2,940 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 47 in 2020 to 62 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 3 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 1 reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile than this vessel.
Emissions by year2020–2025
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,938 | 2,843 | 25,863 | 1,886 | 838 | 345.6 | 17.6 | 62 |
| 2024 | 12,970 | 4,141 | 41,576 | 2,996 | 744 | 312.0 | 11.0 | 26 |
| 2022 | 4,602 | 1,455 | 15,246 | 1,391 | 345 | 301.9 | 9.2 | 11 |
| 2021 | 5,329 | 1,684 | 18,768 | 1,559 | 634 | 283.9 | 11.7 | 24 |
| 2020 | 2,940 | 928 | 7,865 | 740 | 312 | 373.9 | 15.3 | 47 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9828211
- Ship type
- Chemical tanker
- Gross tonnage
- 29,627
- Length overall
- 183.0 m
- Beam
- 33.0 m
- Year built
- 2020
- Flag state
- Norway per EU MRV 2025
- Builder
- Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding
- Port of registry
- Bergen MRV 2025
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (4.76 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- DNV, Germany
- Accreditation
- VS-16026-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-03-20
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 836 of 1,348 qualifying chemical tankers by EEOI, at the 62nd percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.4; this vessel reported 17.6.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 507,271,850 tonne-miles over 25,863 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 204.0% higher than in 2020, for EU/EEA voyages only. No return is recorded for 2023, so the series has gaps.
From 2024 to 2025, emissions fell 31.1% while distance sailed fell 37.8%and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 10.8%.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
- 9,078 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.14 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.51 t
- Under EU ETS
- 5,248 t, 59% of total
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2020–2025, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0).
This page draws on 5 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.