Ship Emissions Register

Shipping emissions reported for 2019

12,395 vessels in this register reported under EU MRV for the 2019 reporting period.

Total CO₂
147.1 Mt
Vessels reporting
12,395
Fuel burned
47.1 Mt
CO₂ at berth
10.68 Mt
Median EEOI
12.7

Compared with 2018, total reported CO₂ rose by 1.4%, and the number of vessels reporting rose by 1.5%. Both figures are affected by which ships fell under the reporting obligation that year, not by fleet activity alone.

By ship type

Ship typeVesselsCO₂ (t)Share
Container ship 1,866 44,973,741 30.6%
Oil tanker 1,983 19,977,115 13.6%
Bulk carrier 3,473 16,499,147 11.2%
Ro-pax ship 405 14,938,750 10.2%
Chemical tanker 1,381 9,739,984 6.6%
LNG carrier 276 8,380,664 5.7%
General cargo ship 1,303 6,577,343 4.5%
Ro-ro ship 245 5,951,010 4.0%
Vehicle carrier 482 5,412,515 3.7%
Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 109 4,937,530 3.4%
Gas carrier 325 2,715,629 1.8%
Passenger ship 69 2,057,728 1.4%
Other ship types 254 1,813,713 1.2%
Refrigerated cargo carrier 143 1,625,248 1.1%
Container/ro-ro cargo ship 64 1,419,719 1.0%
Combination carrier 7 68,269 0.0%
Other ship types (Offshore) 10 53,473 0.0%

Highest reported emitters in 2019

#VesselTypeCO₂ (t)Distance (nm)
1 QUEEN MARY 2 Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 151,825
2 CRUISE EUROPA Ro-pax ship 150,191
3 SUPERFAST XI Ro-pax ship 120,551
4 LA SUPERBA Ro-pax ship 114,103
5 CAP FINISTERE Ro-pax ship 113,411
6 VENTURA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 112,949
7 NORWEGIAN SPIRIT Passenger ship 108,957
8 CRUISE ROMA Ro-pax ship 108,953
9 MSC MERAVIGLIA Passenger ship 107,285
10 MSC PREZIOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 107,166
11 CRUISE BARCELONA Ro-pax ship 106,431
12 CRUISE OLYMPIA Ro-pax ship 106,260
13 HELLENIC SPIRIT Ro-pax ship 104,561
14 FINNSTAR Ro-pax ship 103,929
15 LA SUPREMA Ro-pax ship 102,720
16 EVER GIFTED Container ship 102,636
17 COSCO SHIPPING NEBULA Container ship 102,236
18 FINNLADY Ro-pax ship 101,591
19 VLADIMIR VIZE LNG carrier 100,207
20 MSC DIVINA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 100,138
21 COSCO SHIPPING LIBRA Container ship 99,979
22 FINNMAID Ro-pax ship 99,886
23 COLOR MAGIC Ro-pax ship 98,928
24 DUKHAN Gas carrier 98,875
25 COSCO SHIPPING SAGITTARIUS Container ship 98,248
26 AL AREESH LNG carrier 97,702
27 COSCO SHIPPING CAPRICORN Container ship 97,603
28 COSCO SHIPPING LEO Container ship 97,016
29 AL KHUWAIR LNG carrier 96,825
30 OLYMPIC CHAMPION Ro-pax ship 96,810
31 MSC SEAVIEW Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 96,760
32 SAPPHIRE PRINCESS Passenger ship 95,288
33 MSC BELLISSIMA Passenger ship 95,070
34 COLOR FANTASY Ro-pax ship 94,774
35 AL DAAYEN LNG carrier 93,912
36 AL HAMLA LNG carrier 93,079
37 NORWEGIAN EPIC Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 92,979
38 MSC MAGNIFICA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 91,676
39 COSTA PACIFICA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 91,646
40 COSCO SHIPPING TAURUS Container ship 90,706
41 SALAHUDDIN Container ship 90,473
42 COSCO SHIPPING GEMINI Container ship 90,470
43 COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO Container ship 89,631
44 COSCO SHIPPING UNIVERSE Container ship 88,989
45 SANTA CLARA Container ship 88,674
46 JEWEL OF THE SEAS Passenger ship 88,384
47 AL MARROUNA LNG carrier 88,231
48 CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE LNG carrier 88,119
49 PATRIS LNG carrier 88,018
50 EVER GIVEN Container ship 87,925
51 COSCO SHIPPING SCORPIO Container ship 87,490
52 SUPERSPEED 2 Ro-pax ship 86,205
53 ARCTIC DISCOVERER LNG carrier 85,935
54 BRITANNIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 85,586
55 COSTA DELIZIOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 85,273
56 MSC BHAVYA Container ship 84,920
57 SANTA ISABEL Container ship 84,806
58 MOL PRESENCE Container ship 84,575
59 BLUE STAR 1 Ro-pax ship 84,126
60 EXPLORER OF THE SEAS Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 83,921
61 CSCL MARS Container ship 83,753
62 BLUE STAR DELOS Ro-pax ship 83,355
63 LNG ABUJA II LNG carrier 83,270
64 MSC FANTASIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 83,119
65 COSTA FAVOLOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 82,497
66 QUEEN VICTORIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 81,757
67 ARCTIC VOYAGER LNG carrier 81,380
68 FESTOS PALACE Ro-pax ship 81,206
69 MSC POESIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 80,768
70 OOCL INDONESIA Container ship 80,102
71 ARCADIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 79,978
72 MOBY AKI Ro-pax ship 79,832
73 AL KHATTIYA LNG carrier 79,734
74 SUPERSPEED 1 Ro-pax ship 79,538
75 BLUE STAR PATMOS Ro-pax ship 79,534
76 CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Container ship 79,382
77 CMA CGM JULES VERNE Container ship 79,294
78 YM WORTH Container ship 79,154
79 OOCL HONG KONG Container ship 78,884
80 TANIT Ro-pax ship 78,711
81 W. B. YEATS Ro-pax ship 78,596
82 BLUE STAR 2 Ro-pax ship 78,329
83 AL BAHIYA LNG carrier 78,282
84 OSCAR WILDE Ro-pax ship 78,266
85 MSC SINFONIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 78,217
86 NORWEGIAN STAR Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 78,192
87 YM WITNESS Container ship 78,063
88 CELEBRITY SILHOUETTE Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 77,996
89 CIUDAD DE BARCELONA Ro-pax ship 77,905
90 PONT-AVEN Ro-pax ship 77,686
91 ONAIZA LNG carrier 77,530
92 MOBY WONDER Ro-pax ship 77,131
93 SANTA URSULA Container ship 76,305
94 DAL KALAHARI Container ship 76,211
95 MARIT MAERSK Container ship 76,126
96 VLADIMIR RUSANOV LNG carrier 75,956
97 YM WELLHEAD Container ship 75,850
98 LINAH Container ship 75,292
99 SEASPAN OCEANIA Container ship 75,250
100 STENA BRITANNICA Ro-pax ship 75,218

Absolute emissions track how much work a ship did, not how efficiently it did it. A large container vessel on continuous service will out-emit a small tanker that sat idle, without being the worse performer. Efficiency is measured by EEOI, which is shown on each vessel page.