The counts
| Figure | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| Ships with an IMO number | 101,900 | Each ship is counted once, by its IMO number. |
| With a deadweight on file | 75,596 | Deadweight is the weight a ship can carry. |
| With no deadweight on file | 26,304 | These cannot appear in a search by deadweight. |
| Ships reachable by e-mail | 45,386 | Ships with a commercial contact who can be e-mailed about a fixture. |
| Commercial ports with a map position | 11,425 | Yacht harbours are left out. |
| Trading regions | 31 | The areas a ship's open position is filed under. |
Read from the live register.
What the gaps are
26,304 ships have an IMO number and no deadweight on file. Most are newbuildings and small craft that were recorded without their particulars (the ship's main details). They cannot appear in a search by deadweight, so the product shows the count on the screen where you run that search.
Every fleet register has this gap. We publish the number, and we keep the ships in the register.
Ownership
No vendor sells registered owners in bulk. So the contact chain runs through the commercial manager and the technical manager, which are the companies that answer. A ship with no researched company is marked that way. A shared address such as chartering@ is marked as a shared address, and is not shown as a person.
How we count
A ship is counted once, by its IMO number. A ship is "reachable by e-mail" when it has a commercial contact who can be e-mailed about a fixture (an agreed deal). Every other ship is counted as having no contact.
Using these figures
You may quote these figures with a link to this page.
Related: the vessel register, the IMO number checker, who owns a ship and matching a cargo to a ship.