List of merchant navy capacity by flag is a list of the world foremost fleets of registered trading vessels ranked in both

gross tonnage Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weigh ...

(GT) and deadweight tonnage (DWT) sorted by flag state. The table is based on the annual maritime shipping statistics provided by the

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and the

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. It is complete and correct for the year ending 2012. Statistics are published on an annual basis every September. While countries such as Panama may appear to possess a large merchant navy, this is a result of much of it being managed by foreign overseas companies (such as those based in the United Kingdom and the United States). This is known as flag of convenience. For example, although the British Merchant Navy totals 30.0 million GT and 40.7 million DWT in shipping, actual UK merchant navy interests worldwide consists of 59.4 million GT and 75.2 million DWT in shipping. This largely includes the merchant navies of

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and UK merchant navy interests in former colonies.

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References

External links

CIA – World Factbook – Merchant Marine
(cia.gov) – List of countries by Merchant Marine (number of ships), generally total tonnage of ships is more important than total number of ships {{DEFAULTSORT:Merchant Marine Capacity By Country List Water transport-related lists

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