Oil tanker · Marshall Islands flag · built 2017
NORDIC THUNDER: CO₂ emissions 2018–2025
IMO 9797228 6 reporting years
- CO₂ reported 2023
- 1,970 t
- Fuel burned
- 632 t
- Distance
- 4,518 nm
- Time at sea
- 384 h
- Emitted at berth
- 8% of total
- Share of year under way
- 4%
- Gross tonnage
- 81,308
No EU/EEA voyages were reported for 2025. The return shows zero CO₂ and zero time at sea, which means the vessel did not sail to, from or between EEA ports that year. It is not a cut in emissions, and that year is left out of the trend and of any ranking.
Emissions by year2018–2025
| Year | CO₂ (t) | Fuel (t) | Distance (nm) | At sea (h) | At berth (t) | kg CO₂/nm | EEOI | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | No EU/EEA voyages reported | |||||||
| 2023 | 1,970 | 632 | 4,518 | 384 | 148 | 436.0 | 3.1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 8,449 | 2,695 | 21,409 | 1,932 | 700 | 394.7 | 5.1 | 15 |
| 2020 | 10,972 | 3,510 | 30,803 | 2,753 | 752 | 356.2 | 5.5 | 16 |
| 2019 | 6,376 | 2,042 | 17,548 | 2,162 | 451 | 363.4 | 3.9 | 6 |
| 2018 | 9,237 | 2,959 | 23,807 | 2,208 | 461 | 388.0 | 4.2 | 9 |
Vessel particulars
- IMO number
- 9797228
- Previously reported as
- ULSAN SPIRIT
- Ship type
- Oil tanker
- Gross tonnage
- 81,308
- Year built
- 2017
- Flag state
- Marshall Islands per EU MRV 2025
- Builder
- HD Hyundai Samho
- Port of registry
- Majuro MRV 2023
- Home port
- Majuro
- Technical efficiency (design)
- EEXI (2.74 gCO₂/t·nm)
- Verifier
- AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING HELLENIC SINGLE MEMBER LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (ABS HELLENIC S.M. LTD), Greece
- Accreditation
- 1083-2
- Compliance document issued
- 2024-06-28
- Compliance document expires
- 2025-06-30
Flag state is derived from the reported port of registry, not reported directly, and reflects the registry at the time of reporting.
Efficiency against its own type2023
Position 19 of 1,615 qualifying oil tankers by EEOI, at the 1th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 8.0; this vessel reported 3.1.
EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 635,341,936 tonne-miles over 4,518 nautical miles.
Reported CO₂ by year
Reported CO₂ in 2023 was 78.7% lower than in 2018. EU MRV only covers voyages to, from and within the EU/EEA, so a change can reflect where the vessel sailed as much as how much it emitted. No return is recorded for 2021, 2024, so the series has gaps.
From 2022 to 2023, emissions fell 76.7% while distance sailed fell 78.9%and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 10.5%.That points mainly to how much the vessel sailed, rather than the other.
Where the 2023 emissions occurred
Laden voyages2023
- CO₂ on laden voyages
- 1,822 t, 92% of total
- Fuel, laden
- 585 t
- CO₂ per nm, laden
- 403.2 kg
The share carried on laden voyages separates productive sailing from ballast legs. For tankers, bulkers and ro-ro vessels that split is the operational question; a low laden share means the ship spent much of the year moving empty.
Verifier history
| From reporting year | Verifier | Accredited in |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | VERIFAVIA (UK) LTD | United Kingdom |
| 2020 | NORMEC VERIFAVIA SAS | France |
| 2023 | AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING HELLENIC SINGLE MEMBER LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (ABS HELLENIC S.M. LTD) | Greece |
| 2025 | DNV | Germany |
A change of accredited verifier is shown because it matters for audit and data continuity. It is not in itself a sign of anything being wrong.
Sources and how to read this
- Emissions: EU MRV publication (THETIS-MRV), reporting years 2018–2025, published by the European Commission.
- Vessel particulars: Wikidata (CC0).
What this page is built on
- Reporting years
- 6
- Ranked by efficiency
- yes
- Vessel particulars
- 4 of 5
- Movement data
- not observed
- Name history
- yes
- Photograph
- none licensed
- 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.