Container ship · Liberia flag · built 2010

SOFIA EXPRESS: CO₂ emissions 2018–2025

IMO 9450404 EU ETS6 reporting years

CO₂ reported 2025: 30,483 t
Fuel burned: 9,725 t
Distance: 42,204 nm
Time at sea: 2,943 h
Emitted at berth: 4% of total
Share of year under way: 34%
Gross tonnage: 93,750

SOFIA EXPRESS against its type

Built in 2010, it is 2 years newer than the median container ship on this register, which was built in 2008 (3,088 vessels with a known build year). At 93,750 gross tonnage it is larger than 74% of the other 3,000 container ships with a recorded tonnage. It is one of 976 container ships here under the Liberia flag, 27.9% of the 3,495 on the register. The same builder is recorded for 761 other vessels here, 355 of them container ships. The reported port of registry changed: Hamburg (2018–2023), then Monrovia (2024–2025).

Its 30,483 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 722.3 kg CO₂, 32% above the type median of 545.6 kg. It logged 2,943 hours at sea against a median of 3,155 hours for its type that year. 3.8% of its 2025 emissions were at berth; the median for container ships was 3.2%. Across 6 years with reported emissions, the highest was 2024 (74,035 t) and the lowest 2021 (9,502 t). Its efficiency percentile within the type went from 24 in 2018 to 35 in 2025 (lower is more efficient). Of the 3 sister ships listed below with a 2025 return, 3 reported a lower CO₂ per nautical mile than this vessel.

Emissions by year2018–2025

Year	CO₂ (t)	Fuel (t)	Distance (nm)	At sea (h)	At berth (t)	kg CO₂/nm	EEOI	Percentile
2025	30,483	9,725	42,204	2,943	1,169	722.3	10.7	35
2024	74,035	23,835	99,362	6,594	1,158	745.1	9.6	25
2023	17,464	5,799	25,717	1,928	954	679.1	9.9	23
2022	19,150	6,108	24,510	2,037	590	781.3	11.6	28
2021	9,502	3,021	11,809	1,006	496	804.6	11.9	30
2018	21,022	6,734	24,050	1,507	438	874.1	11.7	24

Vessel particulars

IMO number: 9450404
Ship type: Container ship
Gross tonnage: 93,750
Length overall: 335.1 m
Beam: 42.8 m
Year built: 2010
Flag state: Liberia per EU MRV 2025
Sources disagree: Wikidata/AIS (undated) list Germany. The flag shown is from the newest official source, the EU MRV return for 2025.
Builder: HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
Port of registry: Monrovia MRV 2025
Technical efficiency (design): EEXI (8.69 gCO₂/t·nm)
Verifier: DNV, Germany
Accreditation: VS-16026-01
Compliance document issued: 2026-01-30
Compliance document expires: 2027-06-30

Efficiency against its own type2025

Position 638 of 1,838 qualifying container ships by EEOI, at the 35th percentile. The dashed line is the type median, 14.2; this vessel reported 10.7.

EEOI divides emissions by transport work, which for this vessel and year was 2,846,225,023 tonne-miles over 42,204 nautical miles.

Reported CO₂ by year

Reported CO₂ in 2025 was 45.0% higher than in 2018, for EU/EEA voyages only. No return is recorded for 2019, 2020, so the series has gaps.

From 2024 to 2025, emissions fell 58.8% while distance sailed fell 57.5%and CO₂ per nautical mile fell 3.1%.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: 30,961 t
Methane (CH₄): 0.49 t
Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 1.75 t
Under EU ETS: 9,829 t, 32% of total

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) 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.