Official Statistics

Shipping fleet statistics: 2015

Statistics on the size of the shipping fleet on 31 December 2015.

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Shipping fleet statistics: 2015 tables

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Details

In 2015, the UK registered trading fleet:

  • measured 13.7 million deadweight tonnes
  • grew for the first time in 4 years by 8%
  • remained the nineteenth largest trading fleet in the world
  • accounted for 0.8% of the global fleet

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