Container ship · Hong Kong flag · built 2018

COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO: CO₂ emissions 2018–2025

IMO 9783461 EU ETS8 reporting years

CO₂ reported 2025: 83,026 t
Fuel burned: 26,635 t
Distance: 95,624 nm
Time at sea: 6,077 h
Emitted at berth: 2% of total
Share of year under way: 69%
Gross tonnage: 194,864

COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO against its type

Built in 2018, it is 10 years newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 194,864 gross tonnage it is larger than 96% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 202 container ships here under the Hong Kong flag, 5.8% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 194 other vessels here, 10 of them container ships. The returns for 2018–2025 all give Hong Kong, China as port of registry.

Its 83,026 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 5.1 times the median of 16,359 t among the 2,234 container ships on this register that reported for 2025. Per nautical mile it emitted 868.2 kg CO₂, 1.6 times the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 6,077 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 2.0% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.2%. Across 8 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2024 (95,102 t) and the lowest 2018 (60,881 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 5 in 2018 to 11 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 7 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	83,026	26,635	95,624	6,077	1,679	868.2	7.1	11
2024	95,102	30,520	101,633	6,173	1,308	935.7	6.7	8
2023	66,245	21,244	73,474	4,489	1,624	901.6	7.4	12
2022	85,418	27,394	92,035	5,524	2,101	928.1	6.9	8
2021	83,632	26,820	86,138	4,860	2,014	970.9	6.8	8
2020	93,330	29,935	97,516	5,507	1,446	957.1	6.6	9
2019	89,631	28,745	90,360	5,011	1,686	991.9	6.6	6
2018	60,881	19,523	60,372	3,355	1,236	1,008.4	7.2	5

Vessel particulars

IMO number: 9783461
Ship type: Container ship
Gross tonnage: 194,864
Length overall: 399.8 m
Year built: 2018
Flag state: Hong Kong per EU MRV 2025
Builder: Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding
Port of registry: Hong Kong, China MRV 2025
Technical efficiency (design): EEXI (7.05 gCO₂/t·nm)
Verifier: CHINA CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY, China
Accreditation: 0003VV
Compliance document issued: 2026-03-29
Compliance document expires: 2027-06-30

Efficiency against its own type2025

Position 200 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 11th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 7.1.

EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 11,693,770,422 tonne-miles over 95,624 nautical miles.

Reported CO₂ by year

Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 36.4% higher than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only.

From 2024 to 2025, emissions fell 12.7% while distance sailed fell 5.9%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 7.2%.

Where the 2025 emissions occurred

Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025

Total CO₂ equivalent: 84,334 t
Methane (CH₄): 1.33 t
Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 4.79 t
Under EU ETS: 43,452 t, 52% 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 8 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.