Country Comparison > Merchant marine

Rank	Country	Merchant marine
1	Indonesia	9,879
2	Panama	7,860
3	China	5,594
4	Japan	5,017
5	United States	3,673
6	Marshall Islands	3,537
7	Liberia	3,496
8	Singapore	3,433
9	Russia	2,739
10	Hong Kong	2,701
11	Malta	2,172
12	Korea, South	1,880
13	Virgin Islands	1,868
14	Vietnam	1,863
15	Malaysia	1,748
16	India	1,731
17	Philippines	1,706
18	Norway	1,576
19	United Kingdom	1,426
20	Bahamas, The	1,401
21	Italy	1,353
22	Greece	1,308
23	Turkey	1,234
24	Netherlands	1,217
25	Brazil	864
26	Thailand	825
27	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	810
28	Belize	786
29	Iran	785
30	Antigua and Barbuda	780
31	Denmark	682
32	Nigeria	677
33	Canada	669
34	Mexico	637
35	United Arab Emirates	637
36	Portugal	624
37	Germany	609
38	Australia	579
39	France	552
40	Honduras	527
41	Sierra Leone	518
42	Ukraine	408
43	Togo	405
44	Egypt	393
45	Taiwan	389
46	Bangladesh	376
47	Saudi Arabia	374
48	Vanuatu	369
49	Sweden	360
50	Tanzania	337
51	Croatia	336
52	Azerbaijan	305
53	Venezuela	289
54	Mongolia	271
55	Finland	269
56	Cambodia	268
57	Korea, North	264
58	Bahrain	261
59	Tuvalu	243
60	Gibraltar	232
61	Comoros	230
62	Chile	221
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	218
64	Cook Islands	205
65	Palau	203
66	Belgium	201
67	Argentina	192
68	Papua New Guinea	171
69	Cayman Islands	170
70	Kuwait	154
71	Bermuda	148
72	Poland	144
73	Luxembourg	143
74	Moldova	142
75	Ecuador	137
76	Qatar	136
77	Barbados	132
78	Kazakhstan	124
79	Romania	120
80	Spain	119
81	Colombia	115
82	Algeria	114
83	New Zealand	113
84	Dominica	108
85	Faroe Islands	107
86	Paraguay	106
87	Trinidad and Tobago	105
88	Brunei	104
89	South Africa	103
90	Peru	98
91	Sri Lanka	97
92	Burma	95
93	Libya	94
94	Ireland	93
95	Kiribati	89
96	Morocco	86
97	Bulgaria	83
98	Georgia	82
99	Iraq	73
100	Turkmenistan	71
101	Estonia	69
102	Albania	68
103	Tunisia	67
104	Fiji	64
105	Maldives	62
106	Niue	61
107	Uruguay	60
108	Latvia	58
109	Lithuania	58
110	Guyana	56
111	Angola	55
112	Lebanon	55
113	Pakistan	54
114	Cuba	52
115	Oman	51
116	Ghana	48
117	Cape Verde	44
118	Bolivia	43
119	Israel	40
120	Jamaica	39
121	Micronesia, Federated States of	39
122	Equatorial Guinea	38
123	Dominican Republic	37
124	Iceland	37
125	Tonga	36
126	Yemen	34
127	Switzerland	32
128	Senegal	32
129	Jordan	32
130	Mozambique	29
131	Cameroon	29
132	British Virgin Islands	29
133	Gabon	28
134	Mauritius	28
135	Madagascar	28
136	Seychelles	25
137	Syria	25
138	Kenya	24
139	Solomon Islands	23
140	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	21
141	Djibouti	20
142	New Caledonia	19
143	French Polynesia	17
144	Sudan	17
145	Sao Tome and Principe	15
146	Samoa	13
147	Namibia	12
148	Montenegro	12
149	Costa Rica	11
150	Ethiopia	11
151	Congo, Republic of the	11
152	Suriname	10
153	Eritrea	9
154	Guatemala	9
155	Gambia, The	8
156	Guinea-Bissau	8
157	Greenland	8
158	Slovenia	8
159	Nicaragua	6
160	Grenada	6
161	Benin	6
162	Mauritania	5
163	Belarus	4
164	Haiti	4
165	Somalia	4
166	Turks and Caicos Islands	4
167	Guam	3
168	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	3
169	El Salvador	2
170	Guinea	2
171	Anguilla	2
172	Nauru	2
173	Niger	1
174	Macau	1
175	Laos	1
176	Northern Mariana Islands	1
177	East Timor	1
178	Uganda	1
179	Zambia	1

Definition: This entry provides the total and the number of each type of privately or publicly owned commercial ship for each country; military ships are not included; the five ships by type include: bulk carrier – for cargo such as coal, grain, cement, ores, and gravel; container ship – for loads in truck-size containers, a transportation system called containerization; general cargo – also referred to as break-bulk carriers – for a wide range of packaged merchandise, such as textiles, furniture, and machinery; oil tanker – for crude oil and petroleum products; other – including chemical carriers, dredgers, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, refrigerated cargo ships (called reefers), tugboats, passenger vessels (cruise and ferry), and offshore supply ships.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2020