Container ship · United Kingdom flag · built 2012
MSC TOPAZ: CO₂ emissions 2018–2023
IMO 9502908 6 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2023
- 17,620 t
- Fuel burned
- 5,576 t
- Distance
- 20,505 nm
- Time at sea
- 1,712 h
- Emitted at berth
- 3% of total
- Share of year under way
- 20%
- Gross tonnage
- 141,754
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MSC TOPAZ against its type
Built in 2012, it is 4 years newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 141,754 gross tonnage it is larger than 87% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 69 container ships here under the United Kingdom flag, 2.0% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 761 other vessels here, 355 of them container ships. The returns for 2018–2023 all give Monrovia as port of registry.
Its 17,620 t of CO₂ for 2023 is 20% above the median of 14,627 t among the 1,920 container ships on this register that reported for 2023. Per nautical mile it emitted 859.3 kg CO₂, 1.7 times the type median of 509.2 kg. It logged 1,712 hours at sea against a median of 2,716 hours for its type that year. 2.7% 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 (58,855 t) and the lowest 2023 (17,620 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 11 in 2018 to 42 in 2023 (lower is more efficient). Of the 3 sister ships listed below with a 2023 return, 2 reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile than this vessel.
Emissions by year2018–2023
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 17,620 | 5,576 | 20,505 | 1,712 | 469 | 859.3 | 14.5 | 42 |
| 2022 | 32,698 | 10,374 | 32,754 | 2,445 | 752 | 998.3 | 9.4 | 18 |
| 2021 | 52,092 | 16,527 | 51,954 | 3,747 | 1,701 | 1,002.6 | 9.4 | 18 |
| 2020 | 45,213 | 14,348 | 51,570 | 3,974 | 1,522 | 876.7 | 8.5 | 17 |
| 2019 | 58,855 | 18,838 | 63,710 | 4,507 | 1,751 | 923.8 | 8.9 | 16 |
| 2018 | 37,251 | 11,906 | 41,648 | 3,414 | 1,176 | 894.4 | 8.3 | 11 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9502908
- Ship type
- Container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 141,754
- Length overall
- 366.0 m
- Year built
- 2012
- Flag state
- United Kingdom Wikidata/AIS, undated
- Builder
- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
- Port of registry
- Monrovia MRV 2023
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (6.89 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- DNV, Germany
- Accreditation
- VS-16026-01
- Compliance document issued
- 2024-06-29
- Compliance document expires
- 2025-06-30
Efficiency against its own type2023
Position 703 of 1,664 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 42nd percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 17.4; this vessel reported 14.5.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 1,213,474,518 tonne-miles over 20,505 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2023 was 52.7% lower than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only.
From 2022 to 2023, emissions fell 46.1% while distance sailed fell 37.4%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 13.9%.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 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.