Ship Emissions Register

Shipping emissions reported for 2020

11,904 vessels in this register reported under EU MRV for the 2020 reporting period.

Total CO₂
129.1 Mt
Vessels reporting
11,904
Fuel burned
41.4 Mt
CO₂ at berth
8.38 Mt
Median EEOI
12.6

Compared with 2019, total reported CO₂ fell by 11.9%, and the number of vessels reporting fell by 2.2%. 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 1,854 41,796,619 32.4%
Oil tanker 1,886 18,393,130 14.2%
Bulk carrier 3,192 14,047,394 10.9%
Ro-pax ship 399 12,185,827 9.4%
Chemical tanker 1,374 9,414,635 7.3%
LNG carrier 296 8,798,051 6.8%
General cargo ship 1,287 6,174,668 4.8%
Ro-ro ship 247 5,474,269 4.2%
Vehicle carrier 467 4,326,157 3.4%
Gas carrier 317 2,440,700 1.9%
Other ship types 249 1,701,635 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.