Richard Burden – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2015-10-21.
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.
Mr Robert Goodwill
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.
