Vehicle carrier · Japan flag · built 2000
MERIDIAN ACE
IMO 9209518 EU ETS2 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 8,938 t
- Fuel burned
- 2,855 t
- Distance
- 29,546 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,774 h
- Emitted at berth
- 1% of total
- Share of year under way
- 20%
- Gross tonnage
- 56,175
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9209518
- Ship type
- Vehicle carrier
- Gross tonnage
- 56,175
- Length overall
- 199.0 m
- Beam
- 32.0 m
- Year built
- 2000
- Flag state
- Japan
- Port of registry
- Tokyo
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (14.47 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Japan
- Accreditation
- VS-21325-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-03-30
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
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 type2025
Position 173 of 423 qualifying vehicle carriers by EEOI, at the 41th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 51.7; this vessel reported 46.8.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 191,060,924 tonn-nmover 29,546 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Between 2023 and 2025 reported CO₂ rose by 22.7%. No return is recorded for 2024, so the series has gaps.
From 2023 to 2025, emissions rose 22.7% while distance sailed rose 24.5%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 1.4%.That points mainly to how much the vessel sailed, rather than the other.
Annual returns2023–2025
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,938 | 2,855 | 29,546 | 1,774 | 94 | 302.5 | 46.8 | 41 |
| 2023 | 7,285 | 2,308 | 23,734 | 1,432 | 210 | 306.9 | 59.5 | 60 |
Where the 2025 emissions occurred
Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025
- Total CO₂ equivalent
- 9,078 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.14 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.51 t
Laden voyages2025
- CO₂ on laden voyages
- 8,488 t, 95% of total
- Fuel, laden
- 2,715 t
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.
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2023–2025, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0).
What this page is built on
- Reporting years
- 2
- Ranked by efficiency
- yes
- Vessel particulars
- 5 of 5
- Movement data
- not observed
- Name history
- none recorded
- 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.