General cargo ship · Marshall Islands flag · built 2011
KING COTTON
IMO 9536856 MMSI 538009536EU ETS5 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2024
- 1,048 t
- Fuel burned
- 336 t
- Time at sea
- 385 h
- Share of year under way
- 4%
- Gross tonnage
- 21,205
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9536856
- Previously reported as
- MANTA MELEK
- MMSI
- 538009536
- Ship type
- General cargo ship
- Gross tonnage
- 21,205
- Length overall
- 179.0 m
- Beam
- 28.0 m
- Year built
- 2011
- Flag state
- Marshall Islands
- Builder
- Shin Kurushima Dockyard
- Port of registry
- MAJURO
- Home port
- MAJURO
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (6.19 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Japan
- Accreditation
- VS-21325-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2025-03-09
- Compliance document expires
- 2026-06-30
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 1,798 of 3,262 qualifying bulk carriers by EEOI, at the 55th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 8.0; this vessel reported 8.4.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 495,193,548 tonn-nmover 20,031 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
From 2023 to 2024, emissions fell 74.7% and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 19.6%.Distance was not reported for both years, so activity and efficiency cannot be separated here.
Annual returns2018–2024
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,048 | 336 | — | 385 | 0 | 247.5 | — | — |
| 2023 | 4,145 | 1,316 | 20,031 | 1,732 | 314 | 206.9 | 8.4 | 55 |
| 2022 | 2,690 | 847 | 14,919 | 1,223 | 207 | 180.3 | 8.2 | 47 |
| 2021 | 1,959 | 628 | 10,996 | 940 | 25 | 178.2 | 12.0 | 83 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
Where the 2024 emissions occurred
Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2024
- Total CO₂ equivalent
- 1,064 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.02 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.06 t
- Under EU ETS
- 534 t, 51% of total
Observed movementsAIS · Norwegian waters
- First seen
- 12 Nov 2025
- Last seen
- 12 Nov 2025
- Days observed
- 1
- Positions
- 20
- Median speed
- 8.8 kn
Norwegian waters only, 01 Jul 2025 to 27 Jul 2026. A gap here means the vessel was not recorded in that area. It is not evidence that the vessel was idle, and not evidence that a transponder was switched off. Voyages elsewhere are outside this dataset.
Verifier history
| From reporting year | Verifier | Accredited in |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | VERIFAVIA (UK) LTD | United Kingdom |
| 2021 | Nippon Kaiji Kyokai | Japan |
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 2018–2024, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0).
- Movements: Norwegian Coastal Administration open AIS extract.
What this page is built on
- Reporting years
- 5
- Ranked by efficiency
- yes
- Vessel particulars
- 5 of 5
- Movement data
- yes
- Name history
- yes
- Photograph
- none licensed
- 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.