Colombo Express
container ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Colombo Express
- IMO number
- 9295244
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- container ship
- Gross tonnage
- 93,750
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 335.5 m
- Beam
- 42 m
- Year built
- 2005
- Builder
- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
- Registered owner
- Hapag-Lloyd
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Colombo Express
Colombo Express is a container ship. When launched in 2005, she was claimed by her owner to be the world's largest container ship, a title she held until Emma Mærsk was launched in 2006. Colombo Express holds 8,749 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), 730 refrigerated (reefer) TEUs, is 335 metres (1,099 ft) long, and has a beam, or width, of 43 metres (140 ft). She is owned by the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, and operated by its Hapag-Lloyd Container Line division. She is named for Colombo, the largest city in Sri Lanka, which the predecessor company, North American Lloyd, first called on in 1886. She is the first of eight proposed Colombo Express class vessels, and is only slightly larger (approximately 4%) than her Savannah Express class cousins, the 8400 TEU (700 reefer) ships Savannah Express and Houston Express.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emissions & fuel consumption
Independently verified annual figures reported under the EU MRV regulation — public environmental data the incumbents don't surface.
| Year | CO₂ emitted | Fuel burned | Time at sea | CO₂ / n mile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 40,854 t | 13,085 t | 121 days | 867 kg |
| 2021 | 3,658 t | 1,166 t | 22 days | 741 kg |
| 2022 | 4,583 t | 1,461 t | 20 days | 733 kg |
| 2023 | 14,713 t | 4,684 t | 61 days | 778 kg |
| 2024 | 49,623 t | 15,877 t | 184 days | 745 kg |
Technical efficiency: EEXI (9.47 gCO₂/t·nm). Source: European Commission / EMSA THETIS-MRV (EU Regulation 2015/757). Covers voyages to, from and within the EU/EEA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Colombo Express now?
- Colombo Express has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Colombo Express?
- Colombo Express is a container ship, built in 2005 by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. The vessel is 335.5 m long with a beam of 42 m and has a gross tonnage of 93,750.
- Who owns Colombo Express?
- Colombo Express is registered to Hapag-Lloyd. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has Colombo Express been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Colombo Express appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).