Ship Emissions Register

Shipping emissions reported for 2022

13,396 vessels in this register reported under EU MRV for the 2022 reporting period.

Total CO₂
137.1 Mt
Vessels reporting
13,396
Fuel burned
44.2 Mt
CO₂ at berth
8.75 Mt
Median EEOI
12.4

Compared with 2021, total reported CO₂ rose by 8.3%, and the number of vessels reporting rose by 7.6%. 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 1,912 38,475,012 28.1%
Bulk carrier 4,091 18,297,301 13.3%
Oil tanker 1,969 16,590,753 12.1%
Ro-pax ship 415 14,152,618 10.3%
LNG carrier 386 10,709,640 7.8%
Chemical tanker 1,521 9,194,082 6.7%
General cargo ship 1,346 5,869,450 4.3%
Ro-ro ship 238 5,778,434 4.2%
Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 134 5,584,083 4.1%
Vehicle carrier 464 4,189,594 3.1%
Gas carrier 375 2,839,549 2.1%
Other ship types 270 1,535,305 1.1%
Container/ro-ro cargo ship 64 1,331,813 1.0%
Passenger ship 54 1,325,992 1.0%
Refrigerated cargo carrier 141 1,171,036 0.9%
Combination carrier 9 46,604 0.0%
Other ship types (Offshore) 7 35,170 0.0%

Highest reported emitters in 2022

#VesselTypeCO₂ (t)Distance (nm)
1 MSC GRANDIOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 133,812
2 IONA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 129,584
3 VENTURA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 123,466
4 CRUISE BARCELONA Ro-pax ship 121,040
5 CRUISE ROMA Ro-pax ship 120,285
6 NORWEGIAN EPIC Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 118,103
7 LA SUPERBA Ro-pax ship 107,390
8 MSC SEAVIEW Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 106,695
9 MSC SEASIDE Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 105,799
10 SUPERFAST XI Ro-pax ship 103,876
11 FINNSTAR Ro-pax ship 103,526
12 FINNMAID Ro-pax ship 103,183
13 MSC SPLENDIDA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 102,110
14 FINNLADY Ro-pax ship 101,728
15 LA SUPREMA Ro-pax ship 98,913
16 CRUISE OLBIA Ro-pax ship 98,705
17 MSC VIRTUOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 98,584
18 OLYMPIC CHAMPION Ro-pax ship 98,108
19 MSC FANTASIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 96,980
20 W. B. YEATS Ro-pax ship 91,866
21 WONDER OF THE SEAS Passenger ship 91,812
22 HELLENIC SPIRIT Ro-pax ship 91,726
23 YAKOV GAKKEL LNG carrier 91,481
24 MSC MAGNIFICA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 91,474
25 REGAL PRINCESS Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 89,636
26 CASTILLO DE VILLALBA LNG carrier 89,331
27 PONT-AVEN Ro-pax ship 88,936
28 COSCO SHIPPING SAGITTARIUS Container ship 87,023
29 COLOR MAGIC Ro-pax ship 86,988
30 MARIE CURIE Ro-pax ship 86,398
31 COLOR FANTASY Ro-pax ship 85,856
32 CSCL GLOBE Container ship 85,679
33 COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO Container ship 85,418
34 AZURA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 84,686
35 EXCELSIOR Ro-pax ship 84,667
36 ARCTIC DISCOVERER LNG carrier 83,737
37 NORWEGIAN GEM Passenger ship 82,967
38 SUPER FAST BALEARES Container/ro-ro cargo ship 82,240
39 CMA CGM MONTMARTRE Container ship 81,907
40 AIDANOVA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 81,867
41 BLUE STAR PATMOS Ro-pax ship 81,645
42 NORWEGIAN ESCAPE Passenger ship 81,441
43 MSC BELLISSIMA Passenger ship 80,527
44 NIKOLAY URVANTSEV LNG carrier 80,430
45 SKY PRINCESS Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 80,426
46 VOLCAN DE TINAMAR Ro-pax ship 79,955
47 MSC PREZIOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 79,923
48 SUPERSPEED 2 Ro-pax ship 79,816
49 CSCL VENUS Container ship 79,561
50 COSCO SHIPPING SCORPIO Container ship 79,348
51 COSTA TOSCANA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 79,279
52 BLUE STAR DELOS Ro-pax ship 79,094
53 BRITANNIA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 78,561
54 AL DEEBEL LNG carrier 78,398
55 ODYSSEY OF THE SEAS Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 77,903
56 EXCELLENT Ro-pax ship 77,684
57 SUPERSPEED 1 Ro-pax ship 77,679
58 MAGLEBY MAERSK Container ship 77,644
59 COSCO SHIPPING NEBULA Container ship 77,544
60 COSTA DELIZIOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 77,425
61 COSCO SHIPPING ARIES Container ship 77,214
62 COSCO SHIPPING SOLAR Container ship 76,988
63 GEORGIY USHAKOV LNG carrier 76,522
64 AL ORAIQ LNG carrier 76,392
65 MSC MUSICA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 76,306
66 CRUISE OLYMPIA Ro-pax ship 76,205
67 CSCL JUPITER Container ship 76,191
68 CSCL PACIFIC OCEAN Container ship 76,187
69 MSC DOMITILLE Container ship 75,715
70 CSCL MARS Container ship 75,654
71 CMA CGM ZHENG HE Container ship 75,462
72 CMA CGM JEAN MERMOZ Container ship 75,410
73 FEDOR LITKE LNG carrier 75,398
74 COSCO SHIPPING UNIVERSE Container ship 75,282
75 COSCO SHIPPING LEO Container ship 75,208
76 CSCL STAR Container ship 75,198
77 BORIS VILKITSKY LNG carrier 75,137
78 MARSTAL MAERSK Container ship 75,056
79 CRUISE EUROPA Ro-pax ship 74,822
80 CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE LNG carrier 74,567
81 COSCO SHIPPING LIBRA Container ship 74,208
82 COSCO SHIPPING TAURUS Container ship 74,113
83 LNG RIVER NIGER LNG carrier 73,781
84 EDUARD TOLL LNG carrier 72,819
85 CMA CGM RIVOLI Container ship 72,782
86 GOLAR SEAL LNG carrier 72,674
87 VLADIMIR VIZE LNG carrier 72,641
88 ZEUS PALACE Ro-pax ship 72,598
89 FANTASTIC Ro-pax ship 72,573
90 BRILLIANCE OF THE SEAS Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 72,273
91 DROTTEN Ro-pax ship 71,818
92 CRUISE BONARIA Ro-pax ship 71,737
93 NIKOLAY YEVGENOV LNG carrier 71,564
94 GNV AURIGA Ro-pax ship 71,362
95 MARY MAERSK Container ship 71,210
96 COSTA FASCINOSA Passenger ship (Cruise Passenger ship) 71,034
97 CSCL SATURN Container ship 70,968
98 TANIT Ro-pax ship 70,967
99 BW LILAC LNG carrier 70,843
100 EVER ALP Container ship 70,641

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.