Emission Factor

Transport - freight - sea - bulk carrier for dry goods - heavy fuel oil (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for transport, freight, sea, bulk carrier for dry goods, heavy fuel oil. The reference product is transport, freight, sea, bulk carrier for dry goods, 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 dry goods that required specialized transhipment and storage facilities, like solid fuels, building materials, dry foods (sugar, seeds, rice, etc). The carrier operates with heavy fuel oil and it has a mass of 11,160,000 kg. The DWT (load capacity) of the bulk carrier is 50,000 tonnes, and it is estimated to transport an average of 5,100 million 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 ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/21094/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameTransport - freight - sea - bulk carrier for dry goods - heavy fuel oil (market for)
SectorTransport
CategorySea Freight
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2007
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/tonne-km
Scopes3.4, 3.9
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 29Version log
  • Replaced by: 0cc01205-437d-4ab6-91c3-364e61ad880a

API Reference

Activity ID
sea_freight-vessel_type_transport_freight_sea_bulk_carrier_for_dry_goods_market_for_transport_freight_sea_bulk_carrier_for_dry_goods-route_type_na-vessel_length_na-tonnage_50000dwt-fuel_source_heavy_fuel_oil
UUID
4a554827-1273-4d79-a118-9dd6ca912ba5
Code Snippet
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