Value per tonne of goods carried one kilometre
0.045kgCO₂e/t.km
Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · GWP vintage not stated
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventoriesOne value, for any year
Syke sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2026
- LoadHow full the vehicle runs. Syke does not say which load this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. Syke does not say which size this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Distance bandFlights are priced by distance band, because take-off and climb burn a large share of a short flight's fuel. Road, rail and sea factors apply to a trip of any length.
- Any distance, not banded
- Cabin classA business seat takes more of the cabin than an economy one, so it carries more of the flight's emissions. First class on a long-haul flight counts four times economy.
- Not applicable
- Region
- Finland FI
- Boundary
- Well-to-use
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · Syke terms
Where 0.045 comes from
Syke prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up and no split by gas.
Reporting this tonne-kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.045
You pay a carrier to bring goods in, or to move them between your own sites. All of it goes in upstream transport.
The factor, standardised
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Transport › Sea freight · Finland · per t.km · Generic
Well-to-use · Excl. biogenic CO₂
- BoundaryWell-to-useOne unit of energy as consumed, priced from the well to the point of use: the well-to-tank chain plus the burn for a fuel; generation, its well-to-tank and the transmission and distribution losses for a delivered carrier (electricity, steam or hot water, chilled water). Learn more
- Well-to-use
- Fuel supply and fuel combustion
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- Not stated by the publisher
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
Per tonne, per vehicle or per passenger
One trip, three ways to count it. Pick the unit you have a number for.
One tonne of goods carried one kilometre. Use it when you know what the shipment weighs.
0.04512 t over 300 km is 3,600 t.km, so 162 kg CO₂e
One person carried one kilometre, on a bus, a train or a flight. It never applies to goods.
Not for goodsWhat this number covers
The path of one tonne-kilometre, from the oil well to the delivered load.
Fuel production
Extracting, refining and delivering the fuel
IncludedVessel operation
Burning the fuel on board, spread over the average load
IncludedYour shipment
1 tonne moved 1 km. The factor is per tonne-kilometre.
= 0.045
Outside this boundary
- Building the vessel
- Ports and waterways
Vehicles and infrastructure sit outside every well-to-use factor. Some libraries price building the vehicle as a factor of its own.
From Syke's record to a comparable factor
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About this factor
From Syke
The selected ship types are the types that were considered relevant for calculating the emissions of waterborne freight transport used in construction process. JEC report describes the well-to-tank emissions of fuels used in transport process. JEC well-to-tank values were added to LIPASTO emission values to represent the actual values of the whole transportation process.Source and licence
- Publisher
- Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
- Library
- Syke v1.01.010
- Record
- 15ecd339-64ef-4598-930a-2c7fd7935b25
- Published
- 25 September 2026
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
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Cite this factor
Source: CO2data.fi, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/syke/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-syke-transport_container_ship-fi-tkm-well_to_use-e5a50e8d/?v=efv1-243ad6788f7b90673e49098132c24628
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