Merchant fleets

Last modified: 2006-09-30 by antónio martins
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Here’s a list of number of merchant ships (ranked by decreasing number) Number of merchant ships (more than 100 tons) registered by country. Source: Encyclopaedia Universalis, Yearbook Les Chiffres du Monde, 1998. NB: Data presented are the last avilable ones, several of them predates 1997. Countries not listed do not necessarily have no merchant navy, but data are not available for these countries.
Ivan Sache, 30 May 1999

• 7165 Japan
• 5217 Panama
• 2390 China
• 2190 Spain
• 2138 South Korea
• 2128 Greece
• 2014 Indonesia
• 1966 Italy
• 1672 Liberia
• 1631 United Kingdom
• 1597 Norway
• 1499 Philippines
• 1476 Germany
• 1416 Cyprus
• 1061 Bahamas
• 1049 Canada
• 966 Honduras
• 946 Singapore
• 889 Malta
• 881 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• 880 Turkey
• 729 France
• 649 Taiwan
• 644 Poland
• 635 Brazil
• 635 Mexico
• 623 Peru
• 552 Malaysia
• 509 United States
• 492 Morocco
• 456 Denmark
• 444 Egypt
• 439 Romania
• 430 Sweden
• 423 Argentina
• 403 Iran
• 399 Netherlands
• 394 Iceland
• 393 Cuba
• 392 Chile
• 351 Thailand
• 332 Portugal
• 301 Bangladesh
• 301 Saudi Arabia
• 292 Antigua and Barbuda
• 280 Vanuatu
• 276 United Arab Emirates
• 271 Nigeria
• 271 Venezuela
• 263 Finland
• 261 Latvia
• 234 Estonia
• 232 Belgium
• 230 Viet Nam
• 219 South Africa
• 209 Kuwait
• 189 Ireland
• 183 Senegal
• 163 Lebanon
• 155 Croatia
• 155 Ghana
• 154 Ecuador
• 150 Libya
• 149 Algeria
• 144 Burma
• 139 New Zealand
• 131 Iraq
• 126 Mauritania
• 113 Angola
• 107 Mozambique
• 101 Colombia
• 100 North Korea
• 95 Lithuania
• 94 Syria
• 93 Uruguay
• 90 Australia
• 88 India
• 87 Bahrain
• 87 Greenland
• 87 Papua New Guinea
• 85 Madagascar
• 82 Guyana
• 77 Tunisia
• 73 Pakistan
• 66 Sri Lanka
• 65 Qatar
• 64 Fiji
• 62 Sierra Leone
• 61 Bulgaria
• 58 Israel
• 54 Georgia
• 54 Luxembourg
• 53 Trinidad and Tobago
• 51 Brunei
• 51 Ivory Coast
• 47 Cameroon
• 44 Maldives
• 43 Tanzania
• 42 Cape Verde
• 41 French Polynesia
• 40 Yemen
• 38 Paraguay
• 37 Barbados
• 35 Marshall Islands
• 35 Mauritius
• 33 Solomon Islands
• 32 Belize
• 30 Namibia
• 29 Gabon
• 29 Kenya
• 28 Dominican Rep.
• 28 Somalia
• 27 Congo (Dem. Rep.)
• 26 Austria
• 26 Oman
• 25 Nicaragua
• 24 Albania
• 24 Costa Rica
• 24 Russia
• 24 Switzerland
• 24 Suriname
• 23 Guinea
• 22 Congo
• 20 Guadeloupe
• 19 Guinea Bissau
• 19 Micronesia
• 18 Czechia
• 17 New Caledonia
• 16 Sudan
• 15 Hungary
• 15 El Salvador
• 15 Tonga
• 13 Slovenia
• 12 Benin
• 12 Jamaica
• 12 Yugoslavia
• 10 Djibouti
• 9 Seychelles
• 8 Guatemala
• 8 Togo
• 7 Dominica
• 7 Kiribati
• 7 Reunion
• 7 Saint Lucia
• 7 Samoa
• 6 Comoros
• 6 Martinique
• 6 Macao
• 6 Tuvalu
• 4 Haiti
• 4 Palau
• 4 Sao Tome and Principe
• 3 Cambodia
• 3 Equatorial Guinea
• 3 Grenada
• 2 Nauru
• 2 Uganda
• 1 Bolivia
• 1 Burundi
• 1 Jordan
• 1 Laos
• 1 Malawi
• 1 Monaco
• 1 Saint Kitts and Nevis
• 0 Afghanistan
• 0 Andorra
• 0 Bhutan
• 0 Botswana
• 0 Burkina Faso
• 0 Central African Republic
• 0 Chad
• 0 Kyrgyzstan
• 0 Lesotho
• 0 Liechtenstein
• 0 Mali
• 0 Nepal
• 0 Rwanda
• 0 San Marino
• 0 Wallis and Futuna
• 0 Zambia
• 0 Zimbabwe

In bold face countries with shipping companies’ houseflags pages.

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