Shipping: Registration
(asked on 14th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK flagged ships were registered with the UK Ship Register in each calendar year since 2003.
The Department for Transport publishes UK Ship Register statistics as part of its annual Shipping fleet statistics publication in table FLE0100 and the number of UK flagged vessels of 100 gross tons and over registered in each year from 2003 to 2021 are as follows:
Year | Number of vessels |
2003 | 1,419 |
2004 | 1,404 |
2005 | 1,438 |
2006 | 1,456 |
2007 | 1,481 |
2008 | 1,550 |
2009 | 1,553 |
2010 | 1,503 |
2011 | 1,469 |
2012 | 1,401 |
2013 | 1,360 |
2014 | 1,327 |
2015 | 1,330 |
2016 | 1,328 |
2017 | 1,317 |
2018 | 1,306 |
2019 | 1,177 |
2020 | 1,134 |
2021 | 1,091 |
The 2022 annual Shipping fleet statistics will be published on 29 March 2023.
The UK Ship Register is provided by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and generally includes all known sea-going ships (and a few non-seagoing vessels) of 100 gross tons and above.