True management
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Table 2
of open-registry fleets, 1972 (Numbers of vessels and thousand of dwt)
Countries of
Liberia
Panama
Singapore
Cyprus
Bermuda
Hong Kong
Bahamas
Total
registration
Countries
Nb
Dwt
Nb
Dwt
Nb
Dwt
Nb
It
ND
Dwt
Nb
Dwt
Nb
Dwt
No
Dw t
of true managers
United States of America
520
51 377
274
6336
4
27
5
34
55
810
57 829
Hong Kong
597
33 489
573
9 655
19
203
2
4
7
37
Japan
205
9 834
471
6 692
69
4 759
59
T
50
471
1 248
44 859
-
745
21 285
Greece
161
14 243
122
1 141
4
33
423
2 187
36
1
711
17 640
United Kingdom
167
12 755
62
565
76
940
23
112
46
2 401
281
378
17.054
Monaco
75
7 049
6
213
1
5
82
7 267
Germany, Fed. Rep. of
57
2 897
91
1 060
160
2 153
UK-based Creek shipowners
92
5 661
16
183
4
70
13
75
362
4
46
387
6 518
23
266
135
6 180
Singapore
28
548
56
306
346
3373
430
4 227
Switzerland
57
2 737
75
824
10
206
NO
9
143
3 776
Unspecified
57
1 770
169
1 904
4
29
230
3703
Norway
57
2 469
8
86
14
216
8
18
3
58
90
2 847
Israel
27
2 061
12
351
1
Italy
22
1 770
47
374
co
8
95
2
6
1
1
39
2 412
79
2 245
Canada
24
1 352
2
7
5
311
18
∞
279
3
25
52
1 974
Netherlands
23
781
79
609
12
51
5
22
22
119
1 463
40
1361
France
19
1 209
20
149
1
3
US-based Greek shipowners |
26
34
1 306
1 247
8
59
98
1 281
Korea, Rep. of
10
695
88
586
Denmark
27
986
2
17
18
126
7
49
1 137
Countries and entities
each managing less than
1 million dwt
Unidentified
69
29
1 480
1 120
243 300
2 205
16
134
32
113
10
118
3
137
5
15
378
4 202
1 357
35
285
106
202
2
11
4
170
11
7
487
3 152
Total
2 349 157 530 | 2 724
34 679
797
12 919 708 3396
98
3 026
61
2 059
27
109 6 764 213 718
Source: Based on a report prepared for the UNCTAD secretariat by A. and P. Appledore (London) Ltd.
a The "true manager" is the person, company or organization responsible for day-to-day husbandry of the ship concerned (as distinct from the manager of the company nominally owning the vessel). The country of management has been assumed to be the country of domicile of the true manager.