Bulk carrier · Liberia flag · built 2012
BULK PORTUGAL: CO₂ emissions 2018–2025
IMO 9518098 EU ETS6 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 4,142 t
- Fuel burned
- 1,326 t
- Distance
- 15,320 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,414 h
- Emitted at berth
- 1% of total
- Share of year under way
- 16%
- Gross tonnage
- 43,013
BULK PORTUGAL against its type
Built in 2012, it is the same age as the median bulk carrier on this register (build year 2012, 6,882 vessels with a known build year). At 43,013 gross tonnage it is larger than 69% of the other 6,571 bulk carriers with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 1,589 bulk carriers here under the Liberia flag, 19.5% of the 8,138 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 360 other vessels here, 303 of them bulk carriers. Its MRV returns name it BULK PORTUGAL for 2018–2023 and LOTUS for 2025. The reported port of registry changed: PANAMA (2018–2023), then Monrovia (2025).
Its 4,142 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 28% above the median of 3,239 t among the 3,731 bulk carriers on this register that reported for 2025. Per nautical mile it emitted 270.4 kg CO₂, close to the type median of 260.7 kg. It logged 1,414 hours at sea against a median of 1,200 hours for its type that year. 1.1% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for bulk carriers was 3.7%. Across 6 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2018 (8,531 t) and the lowest 2020 (2,282 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 55 in 2018 to 20 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 3 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 2 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 | 4,142 | 1,326 | 15,320 | 1,414 | 45 | 270.4 | 5.6 | 20 |
| 2023 | 6,021 | 1,906 | 21,363 | 1,808 | 230 | 281.9 | 5.4 | 16 |
| 2022 | 4,931 | 1,562 | 15,923 | 1,472 | 106 | 309.6 | 6.9 | 30 |
| 2020 | 2,282 | 722 | 6,290 | 522 | 318 | 362.8 | 8.4 | 55 |
| 2019 | 7,134 | 2,273 | 22,268 | 2,090 | 198 | 320.4 | 4.0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 8,531 | 2,727 | 29,683 | 2,390 | 262 | 287.4 | 8.7 | 55 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9518098
- Previously reported as
- LOTUS
- Ship type
- Bulk carrier
- Gross tonnage
- 43,013
- Length overall
- 228.0 m
- Beam
- 32.0 m
- Year built
- 2012
- Flag state
- Liberia per EU MRV 2025
Sources disagree: Wikidata/AIS (undated) list Panama. The flag shown is from the newest official source, the EU MRV return for 2025. - Builder
- Tsuneishi Shipbuilding
- Port of registry
- Monrovia MRV 2025
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (3.48 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- Swiss Climate EcoCare GmbH, Germany
- Accreditation
- D-VS-20810-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-02-06
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 654 of 3,241 qualifying bulk carriers by EEOI, at the 20th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 7.6; this vessel reported 5.6.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 740,919,499 tonne-miles over 15,320 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 51.4% lower than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only. No return is recorded for 2021, 2024, so the series has gaps.
From 2023 to 2025, emissions fell 31.2% while distance sailed fell 28.3%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 4.1%.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
- 4,207 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.07 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.24 t
- Under EU ETS
- 2,093 t, 51% of total
Verifier history
| From reporting year | Verifier | Accredited in |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Nippon Kaiji Kyokai | Japan |
| 2025 | Swiss Climate EcoCare GmbH | Germany |
A change of verifier is not in itself a sign of anything being wrong.
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, 5 of 5 vessel particulars and a name history. Not found in the sources for this vessel: AIS movements in Norwegian waters, 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.