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Payload capacity for selected vehicles and vessels
In the expert mode, a particular vehicle and vessel size class and type may be chosen. For
land-based transports those size classes are based on commonly used vehicles. For air
transport the payload capacity depends on type of chosen aircraft.
For marine vessels the size classes were chosen according to common definitions for bulk
carriers (e.g. Handysize). For a better understanding, container vessels were also labelled
e.g. “like handysize” (~ = like).
The following table shows key figures for empty weight, payload and TEU capacity of different
vessel types in EcoTransIT World. For marine vessels it lists the vessel types and
classes as well as the range of empty weight, maximum DWT and container capacities of
those classes. The emission factors were developed by building weighted averages from the
list of individual sample vessels. Inland vessel emission factors were built by aggregating the
size ships typically found on rivers of class IV to VI.
Table 8
Empty weight and payload capacity of selected transport vessels
Vehicle/
vessel
Vehicle/vessel type
Empty weight
[tonnes]
Payload capacity
[tonnes]
TEU capcity
[TEU]
Max. total
weight [tonnes]
Truck 24-40 gross tonnes 14 26 2 40 (44)
12-24 gross tonnes 10 12 1 24
7.5-12 tonnes 6 6 - 12