Emission Factor

Transport - freight - sea - tanker for liquid goods other than petroleum and liquefied natural gas - heavy fuel oil (market for transport - HFO)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for transport, freight, sea, tanker for liquid goods other than petroleum and liquefied natural gas, HFO. The Reference Product is transport, freight, sea, tanker for liquid goods other than petroleum and liquefied natural gas, heavy fuel oil. This is delivering the service of transportation of 1 metric ton across the distance of 1 km. This service only considers the transportation of liquid goods by a tanker for liquid goods other than petroleum and liquefied natural gas. The ship operates with heavy fuel oil and has a mass of 19,124,000 kg. The DWT (load capacity) of the container ship is 72,000 tonnes, and it is estimated to transport an average of 8,400 million tonne.kms per year for 25 years. The transport node indirectly considers empty trips (if any) by taking into account the total amount of freight transported throughout the lifetime of the mobile infrastructure. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/20346/documentation

PropertyValue
NameTransport - freight - sea - tanker for liquid goods other than petroleum and liquefied natural gas - heavy fuel oil (market for transport - HFO)
SectorTransport
CategorySea Freight
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2007
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/tonne-km
Scopes3.4, 3.9
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
sea_freight-vessel_type_transport_freight_sea_tanker_for_liquid_goods_other_than_petroleum_and_liquefied_natural_gas_market_for_transport_freight_sea_tanker_for_liquid_goods_other_than_petroleum_and_liquefied_natural_gas-route_type_na-vessel_length_na-tonnage_72000dwt-fuel_source_heavy_fuel_oil
UUID
2a82b1cb-0868-4c35-8b64-fbac1f4e3592
Code Snippet
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