Arrivals of vessels at Norwegian and foreign ports (discontinued), 2006

Fewer passenger and cruise ships registered abroad

Norwegian ships over 1 000 gross registered tonnage (GRT), which includes ships in Norwegian ship registries and ships in foreign registries under Norwegian ownership, had fewer port calls abroad in 2006. Port calls went down by 6 per cent while the corresponding GRT went down by 25 per cent from 2005. The large reduction in GRT stems from a fall in the number of ships in foreign registries, and particularly for ships within the group of passenger/cruise. For all Norwegian ships in this group the arrived GRT fell by 91 per cent while the number of port calls fell by 72 per cent. As a result of this, the trend in composition of arrived GRT of previous years has been interrupted. Arrived GRT by Norwegian registered ships is now larger than that of ships registered abroad.

More activitiy within offshore ships and specialised vessels

Within the two groups offshore and specialised vessels the joint number of foreign port calls went up 5 per cent from 2005 with the corresponding arrived GRT increasing by 8 per cent. The numbers vary across world regions. In Africa and Asia port calls increased by 80 and 22 per cent respectively, while port calls in Oceania with Antarctica decreased by 51 per cent.

In 2006 the total number of Norwegian registered ships over 1 000 GRT that made port calls abroad went up 1 per cent to 871, while ships registered abroad fell by 1 per cent to 663. These vessels made 50 212 and 38 187 port calls respectively throughout 2006. The corresponding arrived GRT was 832 millions and 638 millions.

Tables:

• Table 1 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports, by continent
• Table 2 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports, by continent
• Table 3 Norwegian controlled vessels in foreign ship registers arrivals at foreign ports, by continent
• Table 4 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports. Country. 2006
• Table 5 Norwegian vessels calling at foreign ports. Ports with more than 75 callings by norwegian wessels. 2006
• Table 6 Norwegian vessels port callings between world regions, by vessel type. 2006
• Table 7 Norwegian controlled vessels port callings of Norwegian ports. By vessel type. 2006
• Table 8 Norwegian vessels callings, vessels and gross tonnage by vessel type. 2006