Container ship · Portugal flag · built 2015
MSC SARA ELENA: CO₂ emissions 2019–2025
IMO 9702261 EU ETS6 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2025
- 30,820 t
- Fuel burned
- 9,833 t
- Distance
- 35,291 nm
- Time at sea
- 2,730 h
- Emitted at berth
- 8% of total
- Share of year under way
- 31%
- Gross tonnage
- 95,497
MSC SARA ELENA against its type
Built in 2015, it is 7 years newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 95,497 gross tonnage it is larger than 77% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 307 container ships here under the Portugal flag, 8.8% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 146 other vessels here, 43 of them container ships. MSC Shipmanagement is linked to 109 vessels on this register. The reported port of registry changed: Panama (2019–2020), then MADEIRA (2021–2025).
Its 30,820 t of CO₂ for 2025 is 1.9 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 873.3 kg CO₂, 1.6 times the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 2,730 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 8.3% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.2%. Across 6 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2020 (56,499 t) and the lowest 2019 (12,743 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type was 46 in both 2019 and 2025. Of the 6 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 4 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 | 30,820 | 9,833 | 35,291 | 2,730 | 2,562 | 873.3 | 13.3 | 46 |
| 2024 | 35,692 | 11,442 | 38,854 | 2,745 | 2,356 | 918.6 | 15.3 | 49 |
| 2023 | 26,991 | 8,649 | 36,136 | 2,959 | 1,315 | 746.9 | 13.4 | 38 |
| 2021 | 23,832 | 7,650 | 22,762 | 1,300 | 832 | 1,047.0 | 13.3 | 36 |
| 2020 | 56,499 | 18,137 | 56,986 | 3,173 | 2,462 | 991.4 | 13.2 | 38 |
| 2019 | 12,743 | 4,083 | 13,167 | 750 | 303 | 967.8 | 16.1 | 46 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9702261
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 95,497
- Length overall
- 300.0 m
- Beam
- 48.2 m
- Year built
- 2015
- Flag state
- Portugal per EU MRV 2025
Sources disagree: Wikidata/AIS (undated) list Panama. The flag shown is from the newest official source, the EU MRV return for 2025. - Port of registry
- Madeira MRV 2025
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (9.01 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Operator
- MSC Shipmanagement
- Verifier
- DNV, Germany
- Accreditation
- VS-16026-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2026-01-29
- Compliance document expires
- 2027-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2025
Position 848 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 46th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 13.3.
Across the 102 ranked vessels operated by MSC Shipmanagement, the median percentile is 59. This vessel is more efficient than its own fleet median.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 2,320,815,512 tonne-miles over 35,291 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 141.9% higher than in 2019, for EU/EEA voyages only. No return is recorded for 2022, so the series has gaps.
From 2024 to 2025, emissions fell 13.6% while distance sailed fell 9.2%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 4.9%.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
- 31,303 t
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.49 t
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 1.77 t
- Under EU ETS
- 16,497 t, 54% 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).
This page draws on 6 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.