Container ship · Panama flag · built 2019

MSC GULSUN: CO₂ emissions 2019–2025

IMO 9839430 EU ETS7 reporting years

CO₂ reported 2025: 95,640 t
Fuel burned: 30,975 t
Distance: 77,450 nm
Time at sea: 4,714 h
Emitted at berth: 1% of total
Share of year under way: 54%
Gross tonnage: 210,000

MSC GULSUN against its type

Built in 2019, it is 11 years newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 210,000 gross tonnage it is larger than 97% 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 563 other vessels here, 243 of them container ships. Mediterranean Shipping Company is linked to 44 vessels on this register. The returns for 2019–2025 all give Panama as port of registry.

Its 95,640 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 5.8 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 1,234.9 kg CO₂, 2.3 times the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 4,714 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 1.1% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.2%. Across 7 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2025 (95,640 t) and the lowest 2022 (17,376 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 7 in 2019 to 21 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 6 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 6 reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile than this vessel.

Emissions by year2019–2025

Year	CO₂ (t)	Fuel (t)	Distance (nm)	At sea (h)	At berth (t)	kg CO₂/nm	EEOI	Percentile
2025	95,640	30,975	77,450	4,714	1,085	1,234.9	8.4	21
2024	67,815	21,771	59,481	3,980	1,633	1,140.1	7.3	12
2023	18,827	6,046	14,549	1,114	2,359	1,294.1	10.1	24
2022	17,376	5,577	12,696	1,112	2,637	1,368.7	9.2	17
2021	18,993	6,057	13,011	1,027	2,276	1,459.8	8.4	13
2020	36,149	11,589	29,644	1,878	2,725	1,219.4	7.4	13
2019	44,030	14,094	38,672	2,350	849	1,138.5	7.0	7

Vessel particulars

IMO number: 9839430
Ship type: Container ship
Gross tonnage: 210,000
Year built: 2019
Flag state: Panama per EU MRV 2025
Builder: Samsung Heavy Industries
Port of registry: Panama MRV 2025
Technical efficiency (design): EEXI (7.29 gCO₂/t·nm)
Operator: Mediterranean Shipping Company
Verifier: DNV, Germany
Accreditation: VS-16026-01
Compliance document issued: 2026-01-25
Compliance document expires: 2027-06-30

Efficiency against its own type2025

Position 395 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 21st percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 8.4.

Across the 34 ranked vessels operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company, the median percentile is 52. This vessel is more efficient than its own fleet median.

EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 11,331,778,436 tonne-miles over 77,450 nautical miles.

Reported CO₂ by year

Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 117.2% higher than in 2019, for EU/EEA voyages only.

From 2024 to 2025, emissions rose 41.0% while distance sailed rose 30.2%and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 8.3%.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: 97,161 t
Methane (CH₄): 1.55 t
Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 5.58 t
Under EU ETS: 45,251 t, 47% of total

Sources and how to read this

Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2019–2025, published by the European Commission.
Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons.

This page draws on 7 MRV reporting years, an efficiency ranking, 4 of 5 vessel particulars and a licensed photograph. Not found in the sources for this vessel: AIS movements in Norwegian waters, a name history, 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.