Emission Factor

Transport - freight - sea - container ship (transport - freight - sea - container ship)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is delivering the service of transportation of 1 metric ton across the distance of 1 km. This service only considers the transportation of packaged goods stored in containers like chemicals grains metals electronics etc. The ship operates with heavy fuel oil and has a mass of 18 165 000 kg. The DWT (load capacity) of the container ship is 43 000 tonnes and it is estimated to transport an average of 7 200 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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameTransport - freight - sea - container ship (transport - freight - sea - container ship)
SectorTransport
CategorySea Freight
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.10
Region
Unit Type
Year
2007
Year Released
2023
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/tonne-km
LCA Activity
Refer to source
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Replaced
  • Replaced in: 20Version log
  • Replaced by: 69e23358-310e-4ff7-81b0-ae9af6d10455

API Reference

Activity ID
sea_freight-vessel_type_transport_freight_sea_container_ship_transport_freight_sea_container_ship-route_type_na-vessel_length_na-tonnage_43000dwt-fuel_source_heavy_fuel_oil
UUID
65410251-8f72-4e1b-b0dc-a0bb9c080716
Code Snippet
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