Table 3 Norwegian controlled vessels in foreign ship registers arrivals at foreign ports, by continent

Arrivals of vessels at foreign ports

3	Norwegian controlled vessels in foreign ship registers¹ arrivals at foreign ports, by continent

Part of the world	1998		2001		2002		2003

Part of the world	Port calls	Gross tonnage	Port calls	Gross tonnage	Port calls	Gross tonnage	Port calls	Gross tonnage

		1 000		1 000		1 000		1 000
The whole world	25 701	542 656	24 413	586 358	24 831	578 192	27 229	738 002
Europe outside Norway	10 488	114 941	13 878	157 945	14 985	165 680	16 382	199 735
Africa	1 222	23 391	881	34 742	806	30 160	747	30 284
North America	6 775	213 714	4 268	180 240	4 001	183 048	4 716	287 814
South America	1 810	38 698	1 097	26 902	1 219	30 427	1 127	31 230
Asia	4 848	143 258	3 761	172 317	3 247	153 286	3 716	173 800
Australia and Oceania²	558	8 654	528	14 212	573	15 592	541	15 139

¹	Vessels operating at foreign flag controlled by Norwegian Enterprises.
²	Including Antarctica.
Source: Lloyd's Marine Intelligence Unit.

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