Arrivals of vessels at Norwegian and foreign ports (discontinued), 2002

The number of callings at foreign ports for vessels either registered in Norwegian ship registers or in foreign ship registers but controlled by Norwegian enterprises, amounted to almost 67 000 in 2002. This is fewer callings than in 1998, but slightly more than in 2001.

The employment of Norwegian controlled vessels registered in foreign ship registers was almost unchanged from 2001 through 2002. The number of arrivals at foreign ports by Norwegian registered vessels has decreased by 2 per cent in 2002 compared with 1994. Tonnage employed at foreign ports, however, increased by 13 per cent in the same period.

Europe is becoming an increasingly important freight market for vessels in Norwegian ship registers and vessels in foreign ship registers controlled by Norwegian enterprises. 63 per cent of all foreign port callings in 2002 were to a European port. Both South America and Australia and Oceania increased its Norwegian port callings from 2001 to 2002. South America saw 22 per cent more arrivals and Australia and Oceania increased by 21 per cent. African ports experienced 8 per cent fewer callings in the same period.

Norwegian controlled vessels and Norwegian registered vessels arrive more and more frequently at Chinese ports. The number of port callings has increased by 31 per cent from 2001 to 2002, and 241 per cent from 1998. Great Britain is the most frequently visited country, amounting to 15 per cent of all Norwegian port callings. The USA and the Netherlands have both 7 per cent of all Norwegian port callings. 60 per cent of all African port callings happen in Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco or South Africa.

Most visited ports

Rotterdam has been increasingly important for the Norwegian registered and Norwegian controlled fleet. The number of Norwegian arrivals in Rotterdam increased by 11 per cent from 2001 through 2002, and by 24 per cent from 1998 to 2002. Total callings in Immingham (GB) increased by 38 per cent from 2001 through 2002. The most important ports outside Europe are Singapore and Houston, with a total of 923 and 527 port callings respectively.

Out of the total of more than 90 000 arrivals of Norwegian registered vessels and Norwegian controlled vessels about 16 500 were from and to Norwegian ports. 35 per cent of all movements were from and to the Nordic and the Baltic region.

Bergen, with a total of 3 101 callings, was the largest Norwegian port in 2002 measured in arrivals of Norwegian registered vessels and Norwegian controlled vessels. The port is the single most important in three vessel groups; namely dry cargo vessels, offshore vessels and specialised vessels and support vessels. Mongstad has most arrivals of tankers, and Oslo port sees more passenger vessels and cruise vessels than any other Norwegian port. Haugesund is the second largest port in Norway, measured in Norwegian port callings, with 1 832 arrivals.

Norwegian registered vessels and Norwegian controlled vessels larger than 1 000 gross tonnes consist of 1 461 vessels. The group dry cargo vessel is the largest group with 650 vessels. Measured in tonnage, however, tankers are larger. 46 per cent of the total tonnage of Norwegian registered vessels and Norwegian controlled vessels larger than 1 000 gross tonnes are tankers. Out of 547 Norwegian controlled vessels registered in foreign ship registers, 59 per cent are dry cargo vessels.

Tables:

• Table 1 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports, by continent
• Table 2 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports, by continent
• Table 3 Norwegian controlled vessels in foreign ship registers callings at foreign ports, by continent
• Table 4 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports. Country. 2002
• Table 5 Norwegian vessels callings at foreign ports. Ports with more than 75 callings. 2002
• Table 6 Norwegian vessels port callings between world regions, by vessel type. 2002
• Table 7 Norwegian controlled vessels port callings of Norwegian ports, by vessel type. 2002
• Table 8 Norwegian vessels callings, vessels and gross tonnage, by vessel type. 2002