Container ship · Liberia flag · built 2013
ESSEN EXPRESS: CO₂ emissions 2019–2025
IMO 9501370 4 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2021
- 8,755 t
- Fuel burned
- 2,802 t
- Distance
- 9,810 nm
- Time at sea
- 705 h
- Emitted at berth
- 5% of total
- Share of year under way
- 8%
- Gross tonnage
- 142,295
ESSEN EXPRESS against its type
Built in 2013, it is 5 years newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 142,295 gross tonnage it is larger than 88% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. 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 761 other vessels here, 355 of them container ships. The reported port of registry changed: Hamburg (2019–2021), then Monrovia (2025).
Its 8,755 t of CO₂ for 2021 is 46% below the median of 16,246 t among the 1,825 container ships on this register that reported for 2021. Per nautical mile it emitted 892.5 kg CO₂, 1.6 times the type median of 562.2 kg. It logged 705 hours at sea against a median of 2,808 hours for its type that year. 5.3% of its 2021 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.9%. Across 3 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2021 (8,755 t) and the lowest 2019 (6,857 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 25 in 2019 to 20 in 2021 (lower is more efficient).
No EU/EEA voyages were reported for 2025: zero CO₂ and zero time at sea, left out of the trend and of any ranking.
Emissions by year2019–2025
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | No EU/EEA voyages reported | |||||||
| 2021 | 8,755 | 2,802 | 9,810 | 705 | 461 | 892.5 | 9.9 | 20 |
| 2020 | 6,988 | 2,236 | 8,975 | 677 | 511 | 778.6 | 10.0 | 24 |
| 2019 | 6,857 | 2,195 | 8,121 | 617 | 501 | 844.4 | 11.0 | 25 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9501370
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 142,295
- Length overall
- 366.0 m
- Year built
- 2013
- Flag state
- Liberia per EU MRV 2025
- Builder
- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
- Port of registry
- Hamburg MRV 2021
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (7.69 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- DNV, Germany
- Accreditation
- VS-16026-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2022-03-02
- Compliance document expires
- 2023-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2021
Position 311 of 1,557 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 20th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 16.2; this vessel reported 9.9.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 887,008,105 tonne-miles over 9,810 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2021 was 27.7% higher than in 2019, for EU/EEA voyages only. No return is recorded for 2022, 2023, 2024, so the series has gaps.
From 2020 to 2021, emissions rose 25.3% while distance sailed rose 9.3%and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 14.6%.That points mainly to how efficiently it sailed, rather than the other.
Where the 2021 emissions occurred
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2019–2025, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons.
This page draws on 4 MRV reporting years, an efficiency ranking, 5 of 5 vessel particulars and a licensed photograph. Not found in the sources for this vessel: AIS movements in Norwegian waters, a name history, 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.