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General cargo ships, 2018
1,178 general cargo ships reported to THETIS-MRV for 2018, emitting 6.4 Mt of CO₂. Efficiency is measured as g CO₂/dwt·nm.
The segment at a glance
Median ship
24.9
g CO₂/dwt·nm
Fuel per mile
58 kg
Median ship
Average speed
9.7 kn
Median ship, distance over hours at sea
Hours at sea
3,023
Median ship, EU-scope voyages (35% of the year)
CO₂ at berth
4.8%
Share emitted alongside in EU ports
Ships burning LNG
0
of 1,044 benchmarked
Operators
The 2018 public files do not name the companies managing each ship, so operator rankings start in 2024.
Who verifies the reports
Accredited verifiers check each ship's MRV report. Their share of the segment's ships and CO₂.
Share of CO₂Share of ships
- DNV28.8% / 25.0%
- Bureau Veritas18.9% / 18.3%
- SGS United Kingdom Ltd10.6% / 5.2%
- Verifavia7.7% / 13.5%
- RINA6.2% / 6.5%
- ABS6.1% / 6.5%
- Korean Register5.8% / 6.6%
- Swiss Climate4.6% / 2.7%
- Lloyd's Register3.7% / 4.4%
- China Classification Society2.4% / 2.4%
- 8 others5.1% / 8.7%
How fuel is measured
Each ship's monitoring plan names one or more of the four MRV methods.
A · Bunker delivery notes
61%
Fuel bought, corrected by tank soundings
B · Bunker tank monitoring
37%
Tank readings on board
C · Flow meters
11%
Meters on the fuel lines to engines and boilers
D · Direct measurement
0%
CO₂ measured in the exhaust
Most common combinations
- A54%
- B29%
- C7%
- A + B5%
- B + C2%
- A + C2%
- A + B + C0%
Share of 1,045 emission reports that name a method; a report can name several.
Notes
- Medians and rankings use 1,044 full-year reports with fuel; part-year and zero-fuel reports count towards totals only.
- THETIS reports time at sea on EU-scope voyages only, not time in port. CO₂ at berth is the closest measure of port activity it publishes.
- Speed and distance are derived from the published ratios; THETIS has no distance column.