Ship Emissions Register

Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) · Bahamas flag · built 1997

RHAPSODY OF THE SEAS

IMO 9116864 EU ETS5 reporting years

CO₂ reported 2025
694 t
Fuel burned
223 t
Time at sea
58 h
Emitted at berth
11% of total
Share of year under way
1%
Gross tonnage
78,878
RHAPSODY OF THE SEAS
Sid Mosdell from New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 · File

Vessel particulars

IMO number
9116864
Ship type
Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship)
Gross tonnage
78,878
Length overall
279.0 m
Beam
35.6 m
Year built
1997
Flag state
Bahamas
Builder
Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Port of registry
Nassau
Technical efficiency (design)
EEXI (11.18 gCO₂/t·nm)
Operator
Royal Caribbean International
Verifier
DNV, Germany
Accreditation
VS-16026-01
Compliance document issued
2026-05-12
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: 12,137 t201812,1372019: 19,213 t20192022: 20,132 t20222023: 38,951 t20232025: 694 t2025694

Between 2018 and 2025 reported CO₂ fell by 94.3%. No return is recorded for 2020, 2021, 2024, so the series has gaps.

From 2023 to 2025, emissions fell 98.2% and CO₂ per nautical mile rose 10.3%.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 694 223 58 74 918.8
2023 38,951 12,397 3,144 6,072 832.7
2022 20,132 6,415 2,400 1,023 819.7
2019 19,213 6,104 1,076 5,640 1,287.2
2018 12,137 3,888 699 85 916.6

Where the 2025 emissions occurred

At berthAt berth: 74 t74Within EEA portsWithin EEA ports: 74 t74Voyages to an EEA portVoyages to an EEA port: 410 t410Voyages from an EEA portVoyages from an EEA port: 210 t210

Methane, nitrous oxide and EU ETS2025

Total CO₂ equivalent
705 t
Methane (CH₄)
0.01 t
Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
0.04 t

Sources and how to read this

What this page is built on

Reporting years
5
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.

Comparable vesselssister ships and nearest by tonnage