SHIPPING AND MARITIME TRANSPORT 2012-2013 - ANAVE June 2012 | Page 21

In number of units, passenger ships remain as the fleet segment with the highest share in the Spanish flag (34.6%), followed by general cargo (15.4%), ro-ro ships (14.0%), oil tankers (13.2%) and gas tankers (8.8%). In terms of GT, gas tankers have the largest share (42.8%), followed by passenger ships (19.8%), oil tankers (19.5%) and ro-ro ships (11.1%). General cargo ships (2.8%), reefers (0.7%) and containerships (0.6%) have the lowest segments shares. Finally, special ships group have a share of 2.8%. Throughout 2012, any merchant ship joined the Spanish fleet. Thus the average age of the Spanish merchant fleet grew slightly, from 12.9 years at the beginning of 2012 to 13.2 years by 1 January 2013, although it is still much lower than the average age of the world merchant fleet (17.3 years). The youngest segment of the fleet is gas tankers (6.7 years of average age), followed by oil tankers (8.9 years) and containerships (9.5 years). Passenger ships (13.5 years), general cargo (13.7 years), ro-ro ships (15.0 years) and reefers (21.0 years) have an average age over that of the total Spanish fleet. Special ships have an average age of 18.7 years. During the first months of 2013, the Spanish flagged fleet decreased by 5 units, -3.6% of GT and -1.7% of dwt. Thus, on 15 May 2013, the merchant fleet registered in the REC accounts for 131 ships with 2,438,526 GT and 2,211,838 dwt. Until mid-May, 4 ro-ro ships, with represent a decrease of 30.4% of the GT, and 1 passenger ship, -0.9% of GT, have gone from the Special Canary Islands Register. Finally, it has to be emphasized that 3 of these ships (2 ro-ros and the passenger ship) haven’t been sold to foreign shipping companies but they still belong to the same shipping company and left the REC to be registered in other European registry, so these ships still belong to the Spanish controlled fleet.
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