Container ship · Liberia flag · built 2002

CHARLESTON EXPRESS

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 — Wolfgang Fricke, CC BY 3.0 · File

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
Builder: China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
Port of registry: Monrovia
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

Flag state is derived from the reported port of registry, not reported directly, and reflects the registry at the time of reporting.

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 tonn-nmover 24,343 nautical miles.

Reported CO₂ by year

Between 2018 and 2023 reported CO₂ fell by 77.8%.

From 2022 to 2023, emissions rose 490.9% and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 4.0%.Distance was not reported for both years, so activity and efficiency cannot be separated here.

Annual returns2018–2023

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

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 share carried on laden voyages separates productive sailing from ballast legs. For tankers, bulkers and ro-ro vessels that split is the operational question; a low laden share means the ship spent much of the year moving empty.

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.

What this page is built on

Reporting years: 6
Ranked by efficiency: yes
Vessel particulars: 4 of 5
Movement data: not observed
Name history: yes
Photograph: yes
Sanctions record: none
Inspection record: none in US waters

Caveats that apply to every vessel page

EEOI above 100,000 is withheld. Those values come from returns where reported transport work is near zero, which makes the ratio meaningless rather than extreme. Median across the dataset is around 12.

Emission categories overlap. In the MRV return, emissions at berth are also counted inside the voyage legs, so the categories do not sum to the total. They are shown side by side rather than stacked for that reason.

Distance is derived, intensity is reported. The MRV return publishes CO₂ per nautical mile but not the distance itself, which is null in all 106,564 rows of the source. The distance column is therefore filled from the ranking step, which reconstructs it, and is blank for years where a vessel was not ranked. That is why a row can show an intensity without a distance.

Percentile is within type and year. It is the vessel's position among qualifying ships of the same type that year, where lower is more efficient. A blank means the vessel did not qualify for ranking that year.

Sister ships share a builder, a type and a build year within two years of this vessel. That holds hull and machinery roughly constant and leaves operation as the variable, which is why they are listed before nearest-by-tonnage.

Methane and nitrous oxide start in 2024. They were not reported before that period, so earlier years cannot be compared against them.

Technical efficiency is a design figure fixed at construction. A vessel can hold a good index and still emit heavily by sailing fast, waiting at anchor or carrying little.

Inspection records cover United States waters only. An empty record is not evidence of a clean history elsewhere.

Empty means unreported, never zero. Nothing here is modelled, estimated or interpolated. See the methodology.

Something wrong on this page? See corrections. We do not hold the source registers and cannot amend them, but we will fix anything we have got wrong in reproducing them.