Danish Shipping - Index

2: Size and Composition of The Merchant Fleet

Table 2.6: The Geographic Distribution of the World Tonnage (Merchant Ships)
	July 1, 1980		July 1, 1991		January 1, 2001
	GT	Pct.	GT	Pct.	GT	Pct.
	(1,000)		(1,000)		(1,000)
EU countries	127,437	30.35	68,275	15.66	65,141	12.32
Other industrialized countries	89,761	21.38	81,319	18.65	55,734	10.54
Open registers	109,309	26.03	153,514	35.21	285,551	54.00
Eastern Europe/the Balkans	34,457	8.21	38,765	8.89	11,665	2.21
Dynamic Asian countries	16,858	4.01	30,552	7.01	48,993	9.27
Other Asian countries	25,058	5.97	45,660	10.47	46,943	8.88
Latin America	12,146	2.89	12,737	2.92	8,740	1.65
Africa	4,885	1.16	5,204	1.19	4,023	0.76
Unknown	0	0.00	0	0.00	1,995	0.38
Total	419,911	100.00	436,026	100.00	528,785	100.00