Container ship · Malta flag · built 2006
ELBELLA: CO₂ emissions 2020–2025
IMO 9312640 EU ETS5 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 10,431 t
- Fuel burned
- 3,336 t
- Distance
- 31,554 nm
- Time at sea
- 2,436 h
- Emitted at berth
- 9% of total
- Share of year under way
- 28%
- Gross tonnage
- 18,327
ELBELLA against its type
Built in 2006, it is 2 years older than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 18,327 gross tonnage it is smaller than 77% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 336 container ships here under the Malta flag, 9.6% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 101 other vessels here, 74 of them container ships. The returns for 2020–2025 all give Valletta as port of registry.
Its 10,431 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 36% below the median of 16,359 t among the 2,234 container ships on this register that reported for 2025. Per nautical mile it emitted 330.6 kg CO₂, 39% below the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 2,436 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 9.0% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.2%. Across 5 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2025 (10,431 t) and the lowest 2024 (711 t). Of the 4 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 2 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 | 10,431 | 3,336 | 31,554 | 2,436 | 940 | 330.6 | 25.9 | 80 |
| 2024 | 711 | 227 | — | 158 | 91 | 366.5 | 23.3 | not ranked |
| 2022 | 945 | 303 | — | 187 | 17 | 340.7 | 29.8 | not ranked |
| 2021 | 1,670 | 535 | — | 333 | 32 | 367.6 | 46.9 | not ranked |
| 2020 | 1,708 | 549 | — | 354 | 33 | 355.4 | 27.7 | not ranked |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9312640
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 18,327
- Length overall
- 175.5 m
- Beam
- 27.4 m
- Year built
- 2006
- Flag state
- Malta per EU MRV 2025
- Builder
- Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard
- Port of registry
- Valletta MRV 2025
- Home port
- Valletta
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (18.3 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- RINA HELLAS LTD, Greece
- Accreditation
- 1325
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-04-01
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 1,474 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 80th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 25.9.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 402,133,770 tonne-miles over 31,554 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 510.6% 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 rose 1,366.5% and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 9.8%.Distance is missing for at least one of the two years, so activity and efficiency cannot be separated here.
Where the 2025 emissions occurred
Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025
- Total CO₂ equivalent
- 10,595 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.17 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.60 t
- Under EU ETS
- 8,529 t, 82% of total
Verifier history
| From reporting year | Verifier | Accredited in |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | RINA Services Spa | Italy |
| 2022 | RINA HELLAS LTD | Greece |
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 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.