Shipping: Registration
(asked on 21st October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of global shipping tonnage was registered in the UK in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 29th October 2015
The proportion of global shipping gross tonnage (GT) registered in the UK in each of the last five years is shown below:
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 to July 2015 | |
World Fleet (million GT) | 959.2 | 1036 | 1094 | 1134 | 1175 | 1193.0 |
UK Fleet (million GT) | 17.5 | 17.9 | 17.6 | 15.1 | 13.8 | 14.2 |
UK % of World Fleet | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.6% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
These figures are for ships over 100GT. Figures for the size of the world fleet are not recorded by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and come from Clarksons.