Container ship · Panama flag · built 1993
MSC AMERICA: CO₂ emissions 2018–2023
IMO 9008603 6 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2023
- 5,724 t
- Fuel burned
- 1,814 t
- Distance
- 17,525 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,837 h
- Emitted at berth
- 5% of total
- Share of year under way
- 21%
- Gross tonnage
- 34,231
MSC AMERICA against its type
Built in 1993, it is 15 years older than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 34,231 gross tonnage it is smaller than 62% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 387 container ships here under the Panama flag, 11.1% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 16 other vessels here, 14 of them container ships. Its MRV returns name it MSC AMERICA for 2018–2022 and MSC AMERICA III for 2023. The returns for 2018–2023 all give Panama as port of registry.
Its 5,724 t of CO₂ for 2023 is 61% below the median of 14,627 t among the 1,920 container ships on this register that reported for 2023. Per nautical mile it emitted 326.6 kg CO₂, 36% below the type median of 509.2 kg. It logged 1,837 hours at sea against a median of 2,716 hours for its type that year. 4.9% of its 2023 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 4.0%. Across 6 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2019 (21,739 t) and the lowest 2023 (5,724 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 64 in 2018 to 60 in 2023 (lower is more efficient). The one comparable vessel listed below with a 2023 return reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile.
Emissions by year2018–2023
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5,724 | 1,814 | 17,525 | 1,837 | 283 | 326.6 | 20.5 | 60 |
| 2022 | 6,132 | 1,944 | 18,844 | 1,980 | 309 | 325.4 | 18.6 | 54 |
| 2021 | 5,843 | 1,853 | 16,706 | 1,624 | 169 | 349.8 | 17.7 | 55 |
| 2020 | 18,015 | 5,709 | 50,590 | 4,791 | 1,067 | 356.1 | 23.4 | 72 |
| 2019 | 21,739 | 6,901 | 60,694 | 5,163 | 1,575 | 358.2 | 21.1 | 63 |
| 2018 | 16,659 | 5,300 | 46,577 | 4,149 | 870 | 357.7 | 23.5 | 64 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9008603
- Previously reported as
- MSC AMERICA III
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 34,231
- Length overall
- 216.0 m
- Year built
- 1993
- Flag state
- Panama Wikidata/AIS, undated
- Builder
- Nordseewerke
- Port of registry
- Panama MRV 2023
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (12.55 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- DNV, Germany
- Accreditation
- VS-16026-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2024-05-01
- Compliance document expires
- 2025-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2023
Position 999 of 1,664 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 60th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 17.4; this vessel reported 20.5.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 279,215,122 tonne-miles over 17,525 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2023 was 65.6% lower than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only.
From 2022 to 2023, emissions fell 6.7% while distance sailed fell 7.0%and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 0.4%.That points mainly to how much the vessel sailed, rather than the other.
Where the 2023 emissions occurred
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2018–2023, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons.
This page draws on 6 MRV reporting years, an efficiency ranking, 5 of 5 vessel particulars, a name history and a licensed photograph. Not found in the sources for this vessel: AIS movements in Norwegian waters, 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.