Container ship · United Kingdom flag · built 2007
MAERSK COLUMBUS: CO₂ emissions 2018–2025
IMO 9332987 EU ETS8 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 42,708 t
- Fuel burned
- 13,724 t
- Distance
- 70,693 nm
- Time at sea
- 4,536 h
- Emitted at berth
- 2% of total
- Share of year under way
- 52%
- Gross tonnage
- 74,642
MAERSK COLUMBUS against its type
Built in 2007, it is 1 year older than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 74,642 gross tonnage it is larger than 64% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 69 container ships here under the United Kingdom flag, 2.0% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 133 other vessels here, 105 of them container ships. The returns for 2018–2025 all give Norfolk as port of registry.
Its 42,708 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 2.6 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 604.1 kg CO₂, 11% above the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 4,536 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 1.5% 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 (59,908 t) and the lowest 2022 (30,663 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 21 in 2018 to 50 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 4 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 4 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 | 42,708 | 13,724 | 70,693 | 4,536 | 644 | 604.1 | 14.2 | 50 |
| 2024 | 59,908 | 19,235 | 88,969 | 5,045 | 198 | 673.4 | 10.1 | 28 |
| 2023 | 34,844 | 11,184 | 59,898 | 3,735 | 169 | 581.7 | 9.2 | 19 |
| 2022 | 30,663 | 9,843 | 49,849 | 2,941 | 154 | 615.1 | 9.1 | 16 |
| 2021 | 43,923 | 14,100 | 64,692 | 3,670 | 206 | 679.0 | 10.7 | 24 |
| 2020 | 32,894 | 10,558 | 51,628 | 3,214 | 237 | 637.1 | 10.8 | 28 |
| 2019 | 41,483 | 13,306 | 62,206 | 3,832 | 222 | 666.9 | 10.6 | 24 |
| 2018 | 42,773 | 13,724 | 62,291 | 3,638 | 244 | 686.7 | 11.1 | 21 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9332987
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 74,642
- Length overall
- 299.0 m
- Beam
- 40.0 m
- Year built
- 2007
- Flag state
- United Kingdom per EU MRV 2025
Sources disagree: Wikidata/AIS (undated) list United States. The flag shown is from the newest official source, the EU MRV return for 2025. - Port of registry
- Norfolk MRV 2025
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEDI (15.56 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING HELLENIC SINGLE MEMBER LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (ABS HELLENIC S.M. LTD), Greece
- Accreditation
- 1083-2
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-03-27
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 916 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 50th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 14.2.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 3,001,249,473 tonne-miles over 70,693 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 0.2% lower than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only.
From 2024 to 2025, emissions fell 28.7% while distance sailed fell 20.5%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 10.3%.That points mainly to how much the vessel sailed, rather than the other.
Where the 2025 emissions occurred
Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025
- Total CO₂ equivalent
- 43,382 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.69 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 2.47 t
- Under EU ETS
- 22,170 t, 52% of total
Laden voyages2025
- CO₂ on laden voyages
- 42,064 t, 98% of total
- Fuel, laden
- 13,520 t
- CO₂ per nm, laden
- 595.0 kg
The rest of the 2025 total was emitted on ballast legs or at berth.
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.