The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued statistics regarding the world maritime fleet. UNCTAD this week uploaded 2017 maritime statistics on the world shipping fleet by flag and by country of ownership, as well as the 2016 tonnage for ship building and scrapping. Greece takes the top place of ship owning countries and outranks Japan,…
The UK Department for Transport produces annually maritime statistics for: domestic waterborne freight ports sea passengers shipping fleets seafarers An overview of maritime and shipping statistics can be seen within the maritime chapter of the latest Transport statistics Great Britain publication. Domestic waterborne freight Statistics on freight traffic moved within the United Kingdom by water…
The UK Department for Transport (DfT) posted the Seafarer statistics 2016. During the year, there were an estimated 23,060 active UK seafarers, of whom 10,650 were certificated officers. There were 10,650 certificated UK officers active at sea in 2016, and a further 1,670 uncertificated UK officers active at sea in 2016. The number of UK ratings increased…
