Ship Emissions Register

Shipping emissions reported for 2020

12,086 vessels in this register reported under EU MRV for the 2020 reporting period.

Total CO₂
129.5 Mt
Vessels reporting
12,086
Fuel burned
41.5 Mt
CO₂ at berth
8.40 Mt
Median EEOI
12.5

Compared with 2019, total reported CO₂ fell by 12.0%, and the number of vessels reporting fell by 2.5%. 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 1,869 41,815,914 32.3%
Oil tanker 1,901 18,548,324 14.3%
Bulk carrier 3,308 14,210,703 11.0%
Ro-pax ship 399 12,185,827 9.4%
Chemical tanker 1,384 9,433,754 7.3%
LNG carrier 296 8,798,051 6.8%
General cargo ship 1,292 6,180,030 4.8%
Ro-ro ship 247 5,474,269 4.2%
Vehicle carrier 469 4,331,288 3.3%
Gas carrier 328 2,473,049 1.9%
Other ship types 257 1,707,853 1.3%
Refrigerated cargo carrier 144 1,674,950 1.3%
Container/ro-ro cargo ship 65 1,331,126 1.0%
Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 80 1,047,694 0.8%
Passenger ship 31 167,705 0.1%
Combination carrier 9 69,325 0.1%
Other ship types (Offshore) 7 38,535 0.0%

Highest reported emitters in 2020

#VesselTypeCO₂ (t)Distance (nm)
1 CRUISE OLYMPIA Ro-pax ship 151,141
2 MP THE BRADY Container ship 139,545
3 CRUISE BARCELONA Ro-pax ship 138,065
4 CRUISE ROMA Ro-pax ship 132,347
5 CRUISE EUROPA Ro-pax ship 116,839
6 CAP FINISTERE Ro-pax ship 112,897
7 LA SUPERBA Ro-pax ship 108,540
8 FINNLADY Ro-pax ship 104,854
9 FINNMAID Ro-pax ship 104,532
10 COSCO SHIPPING CAPRICORN Container ship 101,995
11 COSCO SHIPPING LEO Container ship 101,682
12 OLYMPIC CHAMPION Ro-pax ship 101,255
13 FINNSTAR Ro-pax ship 100,631
14 COSCO SHIPPING TAURUS Container ship 95,363
15 COSCO SHIPPING ARIES Container ship 94,904
16 COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO Container ship 93,330
17 COSCO SHIPPING SCORPIO Container ship 92,120
18 COSCO SHIPPING GEMINI Container ship 91,767
19 AL MARROUNA LNG carrier 91,339
20 COSCO SHIPPING UNIVERSE Container ship 90,345
21 AL DAAYEN LNG carrier 88,106
22 BORIS VILKITSKY LNG carrier 87,972
23 COSCO SHIPPING NEBULA Container ship 86,359
24 NIKOLAY URVANTSEV LNG carrier 85,833
25 COSCO SHIPPING SAGITTARIUS Container ship 84,513
26 NIKOLAY YEVGENOV LNG carrier 84,137
27 EVER GIFTED Container ship 83,897
28 LNG CROSS RIVER LNG carrier 83,761
29 EVER GOVERN Container ship 83,740
30 HELLENIC SPIRIT Ro-pax ship 83,607
31 VLADIMIR VIZE LNG carrier 82,972
32 EDUARD TOLL LNG carrier 82,748
33 LA SUPREMA Ro-pax ship 82,658
34 EVER GLORY Container ship 81,775
35 EVER GLOBE Container ship 79,804
36 SUPERFAST XI Ro-pax ship 79,597
37 AL AREESH LNG carrier 79,285
38 MAYVIEW MAERSK Container ship 78,191
39 COSCO SHIPPING HIMALAYAS Container ship 77,157
40 CIUDAD DE BARCELONA Ro-pax ship 77,091
41 FESTOS PALACE Ro-pax ship 76,644
42 SUPERSPEED 2 Ro-pax ship 76,468
43 ARCTIC PRINCESS LNG carrier 76,302
44 OSCAR WILDE Ro-pax ship 76,158
45 MARIE MAERSK Container ship 76,126
46 AL NUAMAN LNG carrier 75,409
47 SPIRIT OF FRANCE Ro-pax ship 75,228
48 CHARLESTON EXPRESS Container ship 75,036
49 RUDOLF SAMOYLOVICH LNG carrier 74,844
50 ATLANTA EXPRESS Container ship 74,656
51 EVER GREET Container ship 74,472
52 TIHAMA Container ship 74,414
53 CSCL ARCTIC OCEAN Container ship 74,035
54 W. B. YEATS Ro-pax ship 73,763
55 CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE LNG carrier 73,674
56 CSCL JUPITER Container ship 73,364
57 VLADIMIR RUSANOV LNG carrier 73,353
58 ARCTIC VOYAGER LNG carrier 73,295
59 COSCO SHIPPING GALAXY Container ship 73,286
60 AL SADD LNG carrier 72,880
61 AL SAFLIYA LNG carrier 72,575
62 FEDOR LITKE LNG carrier 72,292
63 MSC GRANDIOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 72,080
64 OOCL SCANDINAVIA Container ship 71,981
65 CMA CGM ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY Container ship 71,911
66 YAKOV GAKKEL LNG carrier 71,848
67 AL DEEBEL LNG carrier 71,478
68 OOCL JAPAN Container ship 70,464
69 TOKYO TRIUMPH Container ship 70,315
70 AL AAMRIYA LNG carrier 70,292
71 BORIS DAVYDOV LNG carrier 70,176
72 EVER GOLDEN Container ship 70,129
73 MADISON MAERSK Container ship 69,964
74 MOGENS MAERSK Container ship 69,950
75 BLUE STAR MYCONOS Ro-pax ship 69,902
76 COSCO SHIPPING STAR Container ship 69,364
77 BALTIC PRINCESS Ro-pax ship 69,340
78 OOCL UNITED KINGDOM Container ship 69,256
79 CSCL URANUS Container ship 69,089
80 OOCL INDONESIA Container ship 68,926
81 CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Container ship 68,893
82 GEORGIY USHAKOV LNG carrier 68,828
83 MSC SINDY Container ship 68,775
84 ZEUS PALACE Ro-pax ship 68,600
85 COSCO SHIPPING PISCES Container ship 68,556
86 CMA CGM LOUIS BLERIOT Container ship 68,517
87 AL RUWAIS LNG carrier 67,969
88 CSCL STAR Container ship 67,568
89 FESTOS PALACE Ro-pax ship 67,210
90 STENA BRITANNICA Ro-pax ship 67,118
91 MILAHA QATAR LNG carrier 67,087
92 GALAXY Ro-pax ship 66,968
93 OOCL HONG KONG Container ship 66,946
94 MSC PEGASUS Container ship 66,351
95 MSC PHOENIX Container ship 65,998
96 UMM BAB LNG carrier 65,891
97 COSCO SHIPPING LIBRA Container ship 65,604
98 LNG ADAMAWA LNG carrier 65,527
99 MARSEILLE MAERSK Container ship 65,351
100 MSC MAUREEN Container ship 65,196

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.