The Greek-owned fleet over 1,000 gt decreased by 27 ships in March 2023 compared to the same month of 2019. According to the data published by the London Hellenic Maritime Cooperation Committee (Committee) on March 1, 2023, the Greek-owned fleet consisted of of 4,113 ships of various categories, with a carrying capacity of 349,963,241 DWT and 204,676,437 GT. Compared to the previous year’s figures, this represents a decrease of 27 vessels, 5,379,453 DWT and 5,400,836 GT, compared to 4,140 vessels in March 2022. The figures include 194 vessels of various classes on order at the shipyards, in total 15,062,722 DWT and 12,464,797 GT.
The Greek-flagged fleet has decreased in terms of number of ships, DWT and GT, now consisting of 499 ships, 31,389,394 GT and 53,221,569 DWT, in contrast to the previous year’s figures of 570 ships, 35,600,214 GT and 59,614,661 DWT.
Greek shipping companies control 24.61% of the world’s tanker fleet, 15.81% of the Ore and Bulk fleet and 10.45% of liquefied gas ships.
The Greek-owned fleet is registered under approximately 32 flags. Overall, the flags of Liberia and the Marshall Islands are at the forefront of the Greek-owned fleet with 1080 and 1066 Greek ships, respectively, in their registers. In terms of DWT, Liberia with 99,165,631 represents 28.34% and the Marshall Islands with 84,030,818 representing 24.01% of the total DWT of the Greek fleet. The 499 Greek-flagged ships represent 15.21% of the total DWT of the Greek-owned fleet. It is followed by Panama with 327 vessels of 20,455,442 DWT, Cyprus with 213 vessels of 15,079,112 DWT and the Bahamas with 209 vessels of 18,295,416 DWT.
The average age of the Greek controlled fleet in ships increased slightly compared to the previous year, but, nevertheless, it is still years below the average age of the world fleet. The average age of the Greek controlled fleet, based on the number of ships, now stands at 12.6 years compared to 16.7 years for the global fleet. For GT and DWT, it is 10.8 and 10.9 years respectively, compared to 11.3 and 11.3 for the global fleet. The average age of the Greek-flagged fleet registered a slight increase, in terms of number of ships, GT and DWT, at 16.1, 9.5 and 9.3 years respectively against 14.2, 10 and 9.7 years in 2022 .
Also six major international classifiers have on their books the majority of the Greek controlled fleet:
Japan’s ClassNK leads with 802 ships (780 ships in 2022) followed by ABS with 755 ships (808 ships in 2022), Lloyd’s Register with 744 ships (773 ships in 2022), BV with 719 ships (712 ships in 2022 ), DNV with 592 vessels (597 vessels in 2022), RINA with 249 vessels (237 vessels in 2022).
YEAR VESSELS NO DWT GT
MARCH 2013 3,677 265,336,520 155,988,384
MARCH 2014 3,901 290,847,132 170,984,684
MARCH 2015 4,057 314,456,451 184,063,875
FEB/JU 2016 4,092 320,597,574 188,904,194
MARCH 2017 4,085 328,763,767 192,430,519
MARCH 2018 4,148 341,925,357 199,286,013
MARCH 2019 4,017 339,549,357 198,164,080
MARCH 2020 3,968 340,823,637 199,693,859
MARCH 2021 4,038 350,465,999 205,647,569
MARCH 2022 4,140 355,342,694 210,077,273
MARCH 2023 4,113 349,963,241 204,676,437
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