General cargo ship · Panama flag · built 2011
IVS MERLIN
IMO 9604847 EU ETS4 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 6,311 t
- Fuel burned
- 2,008 t
- Distance
- 27,089 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,947 h
- Emitted at berth
- 4% of total
- Share of year under way
- 22%
- Gross tonnage
- 24,020
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9604847
- Previously reported as
- STEADY SARAH, MERLIN
- Ship type
- General cargo ship
- Gross tonnage
- 24,020
- Length overall
- 183.0 m
- Year built
- 2011
- Flag state
- Panama
- Builder
- Minaminippon Shipbuilding
- Port of registry
- Majuro
- Home port
- Majuro
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (6.5 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- ICS Verification Services Single Member P.C., Greece
- Accreditation
- 1101-3
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-03-31
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Flag state is derived from rapportert, not reported directly, and reflects the registry at the time of reporting.
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 118 of 479 qualifying general cargo ships by EEOI, at the 24th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 29.4; this vessel reported 22.3.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 282,478,066 tonn-nmover 27,089 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Between 2022 and 2025 reported CO₂ fell by 9.8%.
From 2024 to 2025, emissions rose 24.1% and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 0.8%.Distance was not reported for both years, so activity and efficiency cannot be separated here.
Annual returns2022–2025
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,311 | 2,008 | 27,089 | 1,947 | 267 | 233.0 | 22.3 | 24 |
| 2024 | 5,086 | 1,621 | — | 1,341 | 245 | 231.1 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6,035 | 1,923 | — | 2,116 | 350 | 250.4 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6,999 | 2,219 | 29,654 | 2,384 | 430 | 236.0 | 13.5 | 17 |
Where the 2025 emissions occurred
Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025
- Total CO₂ equivalent
- 6,409 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.10 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.36 t
- Under EU ETS
- 1,001 t, 16% of total
Laden voyages2025
- CO₂ on laden voyages
- 1,333 t, 21% of total
- Fuel, laden
- 425 t
- CO₂ per nm, laden
- 243.3 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.
Verifier history
| From reporting year | Verifier | Accredited in |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | NORMEC VERIFAVIA SAS | France |
| 2025 | ICS Verification Services Single Member P.C. | Greece |
A change of accredited verifier is shown because it matters for audit and data continuity. It is not in itself a sign of anything being wrong.
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2022–2025, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons.
What this page is built on
- Reporting years
- 4
- Ranked by efficiency
- yes
- Vessel particulars
- 5 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.