This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most still remain uncorrected. Artifacts of the scans are misspellings, out-of-context footnotes and sidebars, and other inconsistencies. Adjacent to each text file is a PDF of the article, which accurately and fully conveys the content as it appeared in the issue. The uncorrected text files have been included to enhance the searchability of our content, on our site and in search engines, for our membership, the research community and media organizations. We are working now to provide clean text files for the entire collection.
MERCHANT SHIPPING DATA
Compiled from U. S. Maritime Administration data
U. S. Merchant Marine Summary as of 1 January 1974
U. S.-flag oceangoing merchant fleet (ships
of over 1,000 gross tons)
Active.......................... 597
Government-owned............ 24
Freighters........................... 18
Tankers................................ 6
Privately-owned.................. 573
Freighters.......................... 175
Tankers............................. 235
Passenger-cargo ships
Twenty new merchant ships, all between 15,000 and 80,000 deadweight tons were completed in U. S. yards between 1 July 1973 and 31 December 1973. There were no conversions of old ships to new uses during the same period.
combination ......... 6
Passenger............................ —
Inactive....................... 419
Government-owned (excluding. . 161 ships to be sold for scrap). . . 396
Passenger-cargo ships.......... Ill
Freighters.......................... 255
Tankers........................... 27
Privately-owned................ 23
Passenger-cargo ships....... 3
Freighters........................ 10
Tankers............................. 6
Total U. S. merchant ships of over 1,000 tons under construction or conversion
in U. S. yards......................... 86
Freighters (private, subsidized) ... 0
Tankers (private, non-subsidized) . . 64 Conversion of old ships 0
U. S. merchant marine manpower ^
Seafaring jobs in active oceangoing E- , flag ships of 1,000 tons and over
1 January 1974 ......... 25,3
Men in training (as of 1 January ,
1974)................................ 3A
U. S. merchant marine cadet ,
corps... .. ...... 9
State maritime academies . . • «
Longshoremen............... (fi
Atlantic....................... 3“M
Gulf............................ '*2
P*dSc............................ 12 J
Great Lakes................
Employment of U. S. Privately-Owned Merchant Shipping as of 1 January 1974
Status and | Number of | Deadweight |
Area of Employment | Ships | Tons |
Total Ships | 1,016 | 17,466,000 |
Active Ships | 597 | 13,625,000 |
Foreign Trade | 298 | 6,528,000 |
Nearby Foreign | 25 | 677,000 |
Overseas Foreign | 273 | 5,851,000 |
Foreign to Foreign | 2 | 28,000 |
Domestic Trade | 203 | 5,193,000 |
Coastwise | 139 | 3,935,000 |
Intercoastal | 4 | 66,000 |
Noncontiguous | 60 | 1,192,000 |
U. S. Agency operations (MSC) | 94 | 1,876,000 |
Note: Tonnage figures may not be additive due | to rounding. |
|
15 Principal Merchant Fleets of the World Arranged in Order of Number of Ships Registered Under the Flag | as of 30 June 1973 | |
Country of | Number of | Deadweight |
Registry | Ships | Tons |
Total—AH Countries | 21,188 | 419,971,000 |
U.S.S.R. | 2,188 | 15,676,000 |
Liberia | 2,158 | 88,678,000 |
Japan | 2,127 | 53,834,000 |
Greece | 1,672 | 29,838,000 |
United Kingdom | 1,590 | 44,638,000 |
Norway | 1,136 | 39,124,000 |
Panama | 1,032 | 14,352,000 |
West Germany | 727 | 11,084,000 |
Italy | 636 | 12,177,000 |
United States | 616 | 13,448,000 |
Netherlands | 434 | 6,846,000 |
Spain | 419 | 5,986,000 |
France | 417 | 12,972,000 |
Sweden | 327 | 8,503,000 |
Denmark | 290 | 5,965,000 |