Ship Emissions Register

Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) · Panama flag · built 2004

MSC OPERA

IMO 9250464 EU ETS8 reporting years

CO₂ reported 2025
45,909 t
Fuel burned
14,636 t
Time at sea
5,110 h
Emitted at berth
17% of total
Share of year under way
58%
Gross tonnage
65,591
MSC OPERA
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Vessel particulars

IMO number
9250464
Ship type
Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship)
Gross tonnage
65,591
Length overall
251.3 m
Year built
2004
Flag state
Panama
Builder
Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Port of registry
Panama
Home port
Panama
Technical efficiency (design)
EEXI (12.7 gCO₂/t·nm)
Operator
MSC Cruises, MSC Cruises
Verifier
Bureau Veritas Certification France, France
Accreditation
3-2047 rév. 1
Compliance document issued
2026-03-02
Compliance document expires
2027-06-30

Flag state is derived from rapportert, not reported directly, and reflects the registry at the time of reporting.

Reported CO₂ by year

2018: 46,207 t201846,2072019: 62,845 t20192020: 25,675 t20202021: 12,929 t20212022: 41,838 t20222023: 46,127 t20232024: 43,113 t20242025: 45,909 t202545,909

Between 2018 and 2025 reported CO₂ fell by 0.6%.

From 2024 to 2025, emissions rose 6.5% and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 17.0%.Distance was not reported for both years, so activity and efficiency cannot be separated here.

Annual returns2018–2025

Year CO₂ (t) Fuel (t) Distance (nm) At sea (h) At berth (t) kg CO₂/nm EEOI Percentile
2025 45,909 14,636 5,110 7,620 715.4
2024 43,113 13,780 3,611 7,023 861.9
2023 46,127 14,763 3,302 4,056 861.5
2022 41,838 13,347 3,862 7,994 783.8
2021 12,929 4,042 485 10,115 4,680.9
2020 25,675 8,154 1,291 9,953 1,225.1
2019 62,845 19,916 4,560 6,202 835.8
2018 46,207 14,635 3,561 6,114 873.3

Where the 2025 emissions occurred

At berthAt berth: 7,620 t7,620Within EEA portsWithin EEA ports: 7,620 t7,620Voyages between EEA portsVoyages between EEA ports: 27,178 t27,178Voyages to an EEA portVoyages to an EEA port: 2,464 t2,464Voyages from an EEA portVoyages from an EEA port: 8,647 t8,647

Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025

Total CO₂ equivalent
46,628 t
Methane (CH₄)
0.73 t
Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
2.63 t
Under EU ETS
29,585 t, 64% of total

Sources and how to read this

What this page is built on

Reporting years
8
Ranked by efficiency
no
Vessel particulars
5 of 5
Movement data
not observed
Name history
none recorded
Photograph
yes
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.

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