Container ship · Liberia flag · built 2002

CHARLESTON EXPRESS: CO₂ emissions 2018–2023

IMO 9243162 6 reporting years

CO₂ reported 2023: 10,804 t
Fuel burned: 3,450 t
Distance: 24,343 nm
Time at sea: 1,838 h
Emitted at berth: 3% of total
Share of year under way: 21%

CHARLESTON EXPRESS against its type

Built in 2002, it is 6 years older than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). It is one of 976 container ships here under the Liberia flag, 27.9% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 3 other vessels here, all of them container ships. Its MRV returns name it CHARLESTON EXPRESS for 2018–2020, VELIKA EXPRESS for 2021–2022 and VELIKA for 2023. The reported port of registry changed: Charleston, SC (2018–2020), then Monrovia (2021–2023).

Its 10,804 t of CO₂ for 2023 is 26% below the median of 14,627 t among the 1,920 container ships on this register that reported for 2023. Per nautical mile it emitted 443.8 kg CO₂, 13% below the type median of 509.2 kg. It logged 1,838 hours at sea against a median of 2,716 hours for its type that year. 2.7% of its 2023 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 4.0%. Across 6 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2019 (50,010 t) and the lowest 2022 (1,828 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 72 in 2018 to 50 in 2023 (lower is more efficient). The one comparable vessel listed below with a 2023 return reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile.

Emissions by year2018–2023

Year	CO₂ (t)	Fuel (t)	Distance (nm)	At sea (h)	At berth (t)	kg CO₂/nm	EEOI	Percentile
2023	10,804	3,450	24,343	1,838	295	443.8	17.2	50
2022	1,828	586	—	254	55	462.1	27.1	not ranked
2021	18,839	6,005	33,502	2,226	778	562.3	25.6	73
2020	25,761	8,245	45,077	2,727	468	571.5	24.9	75
2019	50,010	15,995	84,938	4,870	750	588.8	25.3	71
2018	48,700	15,580	84,540	4,802	604	576.1	27.8	72

Vessel particulars

IMO number: 9243162
Previously reported as: VELIKA EXPRESS, VELIKA
Ship type: Container ship
Length overall: 243.4 m
Year built: 2002
Flag state: Liberia per EU MRV 2023
Builder: China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
Port of registry: Monrovia MRV 2023
Home port: Monrovia
Ice class: IA Super
Technical efficiency (design): EEXI (14.43 gCO₂/t·nm)
Verifier: AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING HELLENIC SINGLE MEMBER LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (ABS HELLENIC S.M. LTD), Greece
Accreditation: 1083-2
Compliance document issued: 2024-07-23
Compliance document expires: 2025-06-30

Efficiency against its own type2023

Position 826 of 1,664 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 50th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 17.4; this vessel reported 17.2.

EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 628,852,736 tonne-miles over 24,343 nautical miles.

Reported CO₂ by year

Reported CO₂ in 2023 was 77.8% lower than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only.

From 2022 to 2023, emissions rose 490.9% and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 4.0%.Distance is missing for at least one of the two years, so activity and efficiency cannot be separated here.

Where the 2023 emissions occurred

Laden voyages2023

CO₂ on laden voyages: 8,248 t, 76% of total
Fuel, laden: 2,641 t
CO₂ per nm, laden: 430.5 kg

The rest of the 2023 total was emitted on ballast legs or at berth.

Sources and how to read this

Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2018–2023, published by the European Commission.
Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons.

This page draws on 6 MRV reporting years, an efficiency ranking, 4 of 5 vessel particulars, a name history and a licensed photograph. Not found in the sources for this vessel: AIS movements in Norwegian waters, 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.