UK: Shipping Fleet Statistics: 2019
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT
About this release This statistical release presents summary statistics for UK and world shipping feets, including analyses by country of registration, UK ownership and management, and trading vessel type. All fgures are based on vessels of 100 gross tonnes (GT) or over. 1 UKSR fgures also include bareboat charters (i.e. cover parts I and IV of the register)
Gross tonnage on the UK Ship Register (UKSR) fell 34% to 10.5 million GT at end December 2019.
Ofcial data from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) - for all merchant vessels over 100GT1 - shows that gross tonnage on the UKSR has been reduced by 24% compared with the end of 2014, the previous substantial drop. This is the second year of decline following 4 years of continuous growth. Based on world feet data (supplied by IHS Global) for trading vessels only, at the end of 2019, the UK registered trading feet:
accounted for 0.5% of the world feet on a deadweight tonnage basis (a measure of cargo carrying capacity), and 0.7% when based on gross tonnage (a measure of vessel size), both down since 2018.
► was the 24th largest trading feet in the world, on a deadweight tonnage basis, compared to 2018 when it was the 18th largest.
► accounted for 19% of deadweight tonnage of the Red Ensign Group, which as a whole would be the world’s 10th largest trading feet. This proportion has declined from 26% in 2018. These statistics provide other measures of the UK shipping feet, based on vessel ownership and management, which show that at the end of 2019:
► the ‘UK feet’ of ships either owned, parent owned or managed in the UK is larger than the UK registered trading feet - comprising in total around 4% of the world feet, by deadweight tonnage. This share has remained stable since the previous year.
► the deadweight tonnage of ships with a UK parent owner increased in 2019, compared with end 2018, continuing the upward trend of recent years
Things you need to know About these statistics These statistics provide diferent measures of UK shipping interests, set in the global context, including the number of UK registered (UK fagged) vessels. Every merchant ship must be registered in a country (the ‘fag state’) and ship registration can, in part, be considered an indicator of the overall health of a country’s maritime sector. Data sources This release presents fgures from two diferent data sources: 2 and 3 use data from a commercial source (IHS Global and predecessors) to provide context, giving the UK position in the global feet (section 2) and other measures of UK shipping interests (section 3) Users are advised to use MCA fgures for a defnitive picture of the state of the UK Register; the commercial data provides access to a wider range of contextual information (such as the world feet or Red Ensign group, ownership or vessel details) or a longer historic series. An overview of the main diferences between the two sources is outlined in the ‘background notes’ section.
Coverage and key defnitions
Time period. Both sources relate to the feet as at 31 December of each year. Vessel size. Both sources relate to vessels of 100 gross tonnes (GT) or over Vessel type. UKSR fgures cover merchant vessels, including bareboat charters (parts I and IV of the register).
Figures from the IHS data presented in this release relate to trading vessels - those which carry cargo or passengers for commercial purposes. However, the accompanying data tables also cover non-trading vessels (e.g. fshing vessels). Around half of UK registered vessels classifed as non-trading vessels in the IHS data are included in the UKSR statistics given here. Measures of ship size (tonnage). There are two alternative ways that the size of ships is measured within these statistics:
► Gross tonnage (GT) represents the size of the vessel, and is not a measure of weight - it is calculated using a formula based on the volume of enclosed spaces of the vessel. It is used to assess the cost of vessel registration, and is the headline tonnage measure for the UKSR
► Deadweight tonnage (DWT) measures the cargo carrying capacity of a vessel, excluding the weight of the ship itself. In general, DWT has been used as the main measure where statistics are based on world feet data (as in previous years), as overall trends are broadly similar for both measures. The accompanying data tables contain fgures for both DWT and GT. Measures of shipping interests. A country’s shipping interests may be measured in diferent ways. UKSR statistics relate to vessels which are registered in the UK. These vessels may be owned or managed by non-UK companies; the commercial data provides other measures of UK shipping including ownership and management. These are summarised in section 3.
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