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Key figures
1 514
vessels in the Norwegian Merchant Fleet at the end of 2019
2019 | Per Cent Change | ||
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2018 - 2019 | 2014 - 2019 | ||
All | |||
Vessels | 1 514 | 4.6 | 10.6 |
Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | 18 016 967 | 6.7 | 18.8 |
NOR - Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | |||
Vessels | 889 | 1.7 | 0.5 |
Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | 1 901 195 | 4.1 | -5.1 |
NIS - Norwegian International Ship Register | |||
Vessels | 625 | 8.9 | 29.1 |
Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | 16 115 772 | 7.0 | 22.4 |
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Table 1
The merchant fleet by register, ownership and year
Vessels registered in Norwegian ship registers total | Norwegian International Ship Register | Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | ||||||
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Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Norwegian owned | Foreign owned | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |||
Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |||||
1Norwegian registered vessels (NOR/NIS) of 100 gross tonnes and more for transport of passengers and goods | ||||||||
2Norwegian Maritime Directorate and The Norwegian ship registers NIS/NOR . | ||||||||
3New primary data source. | ||||||||
2016 | 1 402 | 16 404 592 | 427 | 11 479 223 | 93 | 2 943 124 | 882 | 1 982 245 |
2017 | 1 441 | 16 790 484 | 454 | 11 769 038 | 102 | 3 041 568 | 885 | 1 979 878 |
20183 | 1 448 | 16 885 298 | 450 | 11 242 343 | 124 | 3 816 949 | 874 | 1 826 006 |
2019 | 1 514 | 18 016 967 | 492 | 11 839 440 | 133 | 4 276 332 | 889 | 1 901 195 |
Table 2
Tne merchant fleet by register, ownership and type of vessel
2019 | ||||||||
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Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | Norwegian International Ship Registered | |||||||
Norwegain owned | Foreign owned | Norwegian owned | Foreign owned | |||||
Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |
1Norwegian registered vessels (NOR/NIS) of 100 gross tonnes and more for transport of passengers and goods. | ||||||||
2Source: The Norwegian Ship Registers NIS/NOR. | ||||||||
Oil tanker | 13 | 16 184 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 3 484 711 | 16 | 446 159 |
Chemical tankers | 5 | 6 026 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 1 072 620 | 37 | 790 930 |
Gas tanker | 1 | 1 687 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 1 223 829 | 18 | 1 395 714 |
Floating production/storage vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tank barge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Foodstuff tanker | 6 | 3 497 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other tanker | 1 | 926 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bulk vessel | 21 | 22 184 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 2 386 440 | 3 | 112 047 |
Combination vessel | 2 | 3 894 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 186 817 | 0 | 0 |
Sand/rock dumping vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fish carrier/Well boat | 85 | 134 782 | 2 | 1 885 | 4 | 16 843 | 4 | 1 710 |
General cargo vessel | 167 | 139 445 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 605 556 | 7 | 130 464 |
Container carrier | 2 | 4 945 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 474 571 | 0 | 0 |
Dry cargo barge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ro-Ro freight | 4 | 5 732 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 367 751 | 4 | 268 560 |
Frozen/refrigerated vessel | 3 | 7 755 | 1 | 5 943 | 7 | 26 301 | 5 | 17 403 |
Vehicle carrier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 121 283 | 11 | 670 636 |
Combined general cargo carrier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Barge carrier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other dry cargo vessels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Passenger ships | 162 | 182 183 | 1 | 7 344 | 2 | 43 530 | 1 | 47 861 |
Car Ferry | 237 | 521 274 | 1 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ro/Ro-passenger carrier | 14 | 106 079 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 782 | 0 | 0 |
Cruise ship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 239 229 |
Other passenger vessels | 24 | 105 907 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 342 | 0 | 0 |
Offshore supply and anchor handling vessels | 115 | 515 858 | 13 | 63 454 | 83 | 404 157 | 16 | 64 438 |
Offshore service vessels | 7 | 33 799 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16 704 | 1 | 16 697 |
Drill units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Offshore survey/seismographic research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cable vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pipe layer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andre offshoreskip | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tug and pusher vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Salvage and rescue vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fishing vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trawler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fish factory | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hunting vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fishery protection | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Research vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dredger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Icebreaker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lighthouse vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Crane ship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pilot ship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Inspection vessel/patrol ship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Work ship | 2 | 10 098 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 378 203 | 5 | 74 484 |
Other support vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yacht | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lifeboat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Submarine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Floating units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Training vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Landing craft | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Table 3
Merchant fleet by register, ownership and size of vessel
2019 | ||||||||
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Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | Norwegian International Ship Register | |||||||
Norwegian owned | Foreign owned | Norwegian owned | Foreign owned | |||||
Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |
1Norwegian registered vessels (NOR/NIS) of 100 gross tonnes and more for transport of passengers and goods | ||||||||
2Source: The Norwegian Ship Registers NIS/NOR | ||||||||
Unknown gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 - 24 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
25 - 99 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
100 - 199 gt. | 162 | 23 784 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 0 | 0 |
200 - 299 gt. | 78 | 18 956 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 255 |
300 - 399 gt. | 42 | 14 802 | 1 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
400 - 499 gt. | 59 | 27 402 | 1 | 476 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 455 |
500 - 999 gt. | 127 | 96 966 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 217 | 1 | 549 |
1 000 - 1 499 gt. | 73 | 90 239 | 1 | 1 409 | 7 | 9 036 | 1 | 1 300 |
1 500 - 1 999 gt. | 51 | 87 475 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 11 810 | 1 | 1 859 |
2 000 - 2 499 gt. | 41 | 92 627 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 53 359 | 1 | 2 285 |
2 500 - 2 999 gt. | 52 | 145 838 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 94 923 | 3 | 8 582 |
3 000 - 3 999 gt. | 56 | 200 474 | 4 | 14 594 | 44 | 154 666 | 14 | 48 802 |
4 000 - 4 999 gt. | 54 | 242 276 | 4 | 18 257 | 32 | 143 991 | 6 | 28 296 |
5 000 - 5 999 gt. | 18 | 98 369 | 4 | 21 980 | 25 | 137 623 | 2 | 11 753 |
6 000 - 6 999 gt. | 19 | 123 569 | 1 | 6 632 | 13 | 81 965 | 2 | 13 262 |
7 000 - 7 999 gt. | 18 | 134 360 | 2 | 15 278 | 20 | 149 835 | 1 | 7 883 |
8 000 - 8 999 gt. | 7 | 57 402 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 43 293 | 2 | 17 658 |
9 000 - 9 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 67 611 | 0 | 0 |
10 000 - 10 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32 065 | 1 | 10 692 |
11 000 - 11 999 gt. | 6 | 67 724 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 153 989 | 2 | 22 720 |
12 000 - 12 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 112 148 | 1 | 12 162 |
13 000 - 13 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 55 572 | 0 | 0 |
14 000 - 14 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 43 544 | 4 | 57 350 |
15 000 - 19 999 gt. | 3 | 51 593 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 318 622 | 10 | 173 684 |
20 000 - 24 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 273 985 | 6 | 133 212 |
25 000 - 29 999 gt. | 1 | 27 164 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 833 023 | 15 | 424 886 |
30 000 - 34 999 gt. | 1 | 34 231 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 2 034 709 | 5 | 157 060 |
35 000 - 39 999 gt. | 1 | 36 822 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 1 358 956 | 6 | 221 709 |
40 000 - 44 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 382 822 | 8 | 342 956 |
45 000 - 49 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 283 003 | 16 | 764 390 |
50 000 - 59 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 673 256 | 2 | 117 062 |
60 000 - 69 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 384 025 | 5 | 336 952 |
70 000 - 79 999 gt. | 2 | 150 183 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 524 113 | 4 | 296 186 |
80 000 - 89 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 226 691 | 1 | 88 919 |
90 000 - 99 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 457 852 | 2 | 192 306 |
100 000 - 149 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 111 109 | 7 | 780 147 |
150 000 - 199 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 629 492 | 0 | 0 |
200 000 - 249 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
250 000 - 299 999 gt. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
300 000 gt. and over | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Table 4
Merchant fleet by register, ownership and age
2019 | ||||||||
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Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | Norwegian International Ship Register | |||||||
Norwegain owned | Foreign owned | Norwegian owned | Foreign owned | |||||
Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |
04- years | 118 | 296 187 | 6 | 24 662 | 78 | 3 055 186 | 31 | 1 140 811 |
5-9 years | 134 | 445 648 | 6 | 28 113 | 125 | 2 953 837 | 27 | 951 769 |
10-14 years | 111 | 421 248 | 3 | 19 571 | 134 | 3 335 170 | 40 | 1 497 946 |
15-19 years | 61 | 216 352 | 1 | 5 804 | 65 | 1 493 255 | 13 | 411 801 |
20-24 years | 51 | 106 786 | 1 | 476 | 44 | 720 161 | 13 | 152 591 |
25-29 years | 39 | 91 376 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 134 413 | 5 | 27 492 |
30 years and over | 357 | 244 659 | 1 | 313 | 25 | 142 083 | 4 | 93 922 |
Unknown age | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 335 | 0 | 0 |
Table 5
Merchant fleet by reguster, ownership and home port
2019 | ||||||||
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Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | Norwegian International Ship Register | |||||||
Norwegain owned | Foreign owned | Norwegian owned | Foreign owned | |||||
Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |
Åkrehamn | 3 | 4 168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ålesund | 76 | 169 656 | 5 | 24 935 | 33 | 196 956 | 8 | 30 312 |
Arendal | 3 | 21 238 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 79 683 | 5 | 58 332 |
Askerøy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bergen | 123 | 169 013 | 3 | 7 828 | 203 | 5 342 938 | 47 | 1 199 026 |
Bodø | 27 | 16 740 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brønnøysund | 12 | 15 574 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brevik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Drøbak | 2 | 761 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Drammen | 4 | 4 701 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Egersund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 434 384 | 1 | 30 945 |
Farsund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Flekkefjord | 3 | 1 015 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 703 | 0 | 0 |
Florø | 65 | 133 492 | 1 | 313 | 2 | 2 888 | 0 | 0 |
Fosnavåg | 24 | 100 425 | 1 | 4 293 | 17 | 90 462 | 3 | 9 051 |
Fredrikstad | 2 | 443 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grimstad | 5 | 16 468 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 575 345 | 2 | 45 832 |
Halden | 2 | 388 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hammerfest | 38 | 27 503 | 2 | 9 640 | 1 | 3 650 | 3 | 286 087 |
Hamar | 1 | 261 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Harstad | 19 | 15 064 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Holmestrand | 1 | 534 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Haugesund | 33 | 54 425 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 1 050 184 | 2 | 51 268 |
Horten | 9 | 40 511 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hvitsten | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hamnvik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kopervik | 5 | 2 673 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 519 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkenes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kragerø | 3 | 1 300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kristiansand S | 11 | 121 538 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 42 133 | 1 | 1 859 |
Kristiansund N | 22 | 12 895 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 721 | 0 | 0 |
Langesund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Levanger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lillesand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 846 | 0 | 0 |
Longyearbyen | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 324 | 2 | 2 663 | 1 | 42 996 |
Lyngør | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Larvik | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 42 835 |
Melbu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mandal | 4 | 19 281 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 279 |
Mo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Molde | 31 | 46 655 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 043 |
Måløy | 7 | 10 771 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 380 | 0 | 0 |
Moss | 1 | 5 505 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mosjøen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Myre | 2 | 6 221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Namsos | 16 | 10 516 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Narvik | 15 | 23 689 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 42 893 |
Odda | 1 | 343 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oslo | 29 | 160 844 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 2 510 679 | 36 | 1 890 055 |
Porsgrunn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Risør | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rørvik | 9 | 15 624 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sandnes | 7 | 25 291 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 078 | 1 | 15 016 |
Sarpsborg | 1 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sandefjord | 3 | 47 355 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sigerfjord | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Skudeneshavn | 17 | 84 899 | 2 | 11 461 | 29 | 189 582 | 7 | 63 502 |
Skien | 4 | 2 473 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sortland | 3 | 6 264 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sandnessjøen | 31 | 34 418 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Steinkjer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stokmarknes | 4 | 2 695 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stavanger | 69 | 80 515 | 2 | 8 801 | 41 | 1 142 270 | 1 | 10 692 |
Svolvær | 4 | 2 304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tønsberg | 2 | 2 529 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 411 906 |
Trondheim | 60 | 76 373 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 55 935 | 0 | 0 |
Tromsø | 56 | 225 675 | 1 | 7 344 | 7 | 78 441 | 5 | 17 403 |
Tvedestrand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vardø | 2 | 1 097 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vadsø | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Table 6
Vessels in Norwegian ship registers not in the merchant fleet, by type of vessel
2019 | ||||
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Norwegian Ordinary Ship Register | Norwegian International Ship Register | |||
Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | Vessels | Tonnage, measured (gross tonnes) | |
Oil tanker | 22 | 1 243 | 0 | 0 |
Chemical tankers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gas tanker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Floating production/storage vessel | 2 | 162 211 | 0 | 0 |
Tank barge | 2 | 1 240 | 0 | 0 |
Foodstuff tanker | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other tanker | 3 | 97 | 0 | 0 |
Bulk vessel | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
Combination vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sand/rock dumping vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fish carrier/Well boat | 16 | 320 | 0 | 0 |
General cargo vessel | 168 | 8 301 | 0 | 0 |
Container carrier | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dry cargo barge | 306 | 335 408 | 0 | 0 |
Ro-Ro freight | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Frozen/refrigerated vessel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vehicle carrier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Combined general cargo carrier | 1 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
Barge carrier | 1 | 329 | 0 | 0 |
Other dry cargo vessels | 3 | 86 | 0 | 0 |
Passenger ships | 693 | 18 886 | 0 | 0 |
Car Ferry | 21 | 1 428 | 0 | 0 |
Ro/Ro-passenger carrier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cruise ship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other passenger vessels | 23 | 851 | 0 | 0 |
Offshore supply and anchor handling vessels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Offshore service vessels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Drill units | 5 | 190 062 | 0 | 0 |
Offshore survey/seismographic research | 4 | 4 568 | 26 | 219 016 |
Cable vessel | 3 | 11 014 | 2 | 23 343 |
Pipe layer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andre offshoreskip | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tug and pusher vessel | 185 | 46 969 | 2 | 854 |
Salvage and rescue vessel | 43 | 18 743 | 0 | 0 |
Fishing vessel | 5 722 | 385 976 | 0 | 0 |
Trawler | 58 | 72 649 | 0 | 0 |
Fish factory | 2 | 49 | 0 | 0 |
Hunting vessel | 6 | 1 909 | 0 | 0 |
Fishery protection | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Research vessel | 26 | 43 284 | 3 | 11 626 |
Dredger | 13 | 3 115 | 0 | 0 |
Icebreaker | 2 | 489 | 0 | 0 |
Lighthouse vessel | 8 | 2 294 | 0 | 0 |
Crane ship | 12 | 18 121 | 3 | 103 139 |
Pilot ship | 50 | 2 016 | 0 | 0 |
Inspection vessel/patrol ship | 14 | 1 024 | 1 | 6 074 |
Work ship | 2 759 | 75 369 | 0 | 0 |
Other support vessel | 36 | 2 553 | 2 | 22 170 |
Yacht | 9 504 | 35 978 | 0 | 0 |
Lifeboat | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Submarine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Floating units | 72 | 393 513 | 4 | 196 861 |
Training vessel | 51 | 7 023 | 0 | 0 |
Landing craft | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown | 86 | 3 465 | 0 | 0 |
See all figures from this statistics
About the statistics
The statistics show the size and structure of the Norwegian Merchant Fleet. The Norwegian Merchant Fleet consists of vessels for transport, with a gross tonnage of 100 tonnes or more, registered in NIS and NOR.
Definitions
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Ship register
Norway has two ship registers; The Norwegian International Ship Register (NIS) and The Norwegian Ship Register (NOR). NIS was established in 1987 in order to improve the competitiveness of Norwegian ships. NIS is also open to foreign owned ships. NOR is primarily limited to Norwegian ships operating in Norwegian waters.
Gross tonnage
Gross tonnage is a function of the moulded volume of all enclosed spaces of the ship.
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Classification of ship types has changed from 2007 and on. Through 2006 ships in the merchant fleet was split between wet bulk and dry bulk. Wet bulk includes gas tankers, chemical tankers, crude oil tankers, product tankers and other wet bulk tankers. Dry bulk includes combined tankers (OBO; Oil Bulk Ore, and OO; Oil Ore), dry cargo, passengers/ferries, general cargo, offshore supply/standby vessels. The new standard, Classification of type of vessel 2008 , in use from 2007, does not constitute a change in which vessels are included in the merchant fllet.
Administrative information
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Name: The Norwegian Merchant Fleet
Topic: Transport and tourism
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Division for Energy, Environmental and Transport Statistics
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By home port of vessel.
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Not relevant
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Production data are kept in SAS and stored long term in ASCII format.
Background
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The purpose is to measure the Norwegian registered merchant fleet's size and structure. Until 1957 the statistics comprised of all vessels required to be registered according to Norwegian law - that is, all vessels of steam and motor engine of 25 gross tons and above, and sail ships of 50 gross tons and above. The statistics comprised therefore of many vessels not included in the merchant fleet, e.g. all fishing vessels, whale catching vessels and other specialized vessels (towing, rescue and salvage, ice brakers, cabel laying vessels, and so forth) of 25 (for sail ships 50) gross tons. In 1957 all the Nordic countries agreed to limit the merchant fleet to vessels carrying cargo and passengers of 100 gross tons and above.
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The statistics are used by National Accounts, governmental departments, shipping enterprises, research institutions and universities. The statistics are also used by individuals with interest in Norwegian shipping.
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Not relevant
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The register was until 2001 used for collection of data in the survey Domestic Maritime Transportation
Arrivals of vessels at Norwegian and foreign ports is an additional source of information on ships registered in NIS.
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The Statistics Act $2-2 and 3-2
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Not relevant
Production
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The statistics was through the year 2009 based on The Maritime Directorate's control system for Norwegian registered vessels, and included all merchant vessels of 100 gross tons and above for passenger and goods transport. The statistics do not include fishing vessels and special vessels such as towing, rescue and salvage, ice breakers, research/weather/seismic vessels, cable laying vessels, drilling vessels and so forth. Statistics over fish catching vessels are published on Fishing and fish farming
All vessels in NIS and NOR must hold certificates issued by the directorate
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Through 2008 data was supplied by The Maritime Directorate who through the control system manages certificates needed for the various types of traffic. All vessels in NIS and NOR must hold certificates issued by the directorate. The data supplied to Statistiscs Norway was based on a criteria of valid main certificate in parts of the year.
Starting with the year of 2009 data is collected directly from Skipsregistrene NIS/NOR. This change in sourcing does not impact the type of vessels included in the merchant fleet.
With the shift to Skipsregistrene NIS/NOR, as data supplier, the requirement of valid main certificate is abandoned.
The statistics is a total count of all Norwegian registered vessels given the limitations described earlier.
With Skipsregistrene NIS/NOR as new data supplier in 2009, all vessels in the registrer can be found in tables of Statbank. Main focus is nevertheless on the merchant fleet.
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The situation described in the data is as of 31st of december.
The information on the vessels are transmitted electronically, and are adapted to the computer system in Statistics Norway.
Statistics Norway makes few changes on submitted data beyond checking classification codes. In the event that these are found to be wrong or missing the data supplier is consulted. Tabulated data is compared to previous years.
Data is receieved with the vessel types given by The Maritime Directorate which are coded into the standard used by Statistics Norway
No computations are made beyond those required for aggregate numbers.
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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The extraction of data from The Norwegian Maritime Directorate control system was altered from 2000 and onwards to include only vessels with valid main certificate.
Starting with 2009, data supplier is Skipsregistrene NIS/NOR. This means that the requirement of a valid main certificate is abandoned.
In May 2011 there were discovered errors in classifications for the posted figures for the years 2007-2009. For the merchant fleet in total the error was limited to two vessels in 2007 and 2008, and eight vessels in 2009. The error affected all categories. Revised figures were posted in Statbank while auxiliary tables in the main posting are left unchanged.
Beginning from 2017, the Norwegian Maritime Directorate (SDIR) decided to categorize "construction ships" as part of the Norwegian merchant fleet. This originally led to a deviation between the figures published by SDIR and Statistics Norway for 2017 by 41 vessels. The deviation was corrected on February 1, 2019.
Accuracy and reliability
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A possible error is deviation of procedure regarding the extraction of data from the Norwegian Maritime Directorate control system, but this is assumed to be small. Errors in data processing can occur if new codes or other non-defined information isn't discovered, and may be wrongly processed. The data has not been changed after receiving the data from the Norwegian Maritime Directorate.
The above source of error pertains to previous data supplier. This will also apply to Skipsregistren NIS/NOR.
The statistics are a full count of all Norwegian registered vessels with the restrictions mentioned in the chapter about production.
The quality of the statistics depends on the quality in the control system at the Norwegian Maritime Directorate. The control system is assumed to be of good quality.
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Not relevant
Contact
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Sjøtransport
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Vidar Lund
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Henrik Eli Almaas