1239 Finnish merchant vessels operated in June

The size of the Finnish merchant fleet was 1,239 vessels in June, according to Statistics Finland.

The regular merchant fleet included 674 vessels and the number of small vessels was 281.

The number of barges and other engineless vessels was 284 in total. The gross tonnage of the entire registered merchant fleet was 2,044,310.

The Register of Merchant Vessels, in which vessels operating mainly in foreign traffic can be entered, contained a total of 110 vessels in June 2022.

Of the gross tonnage of the entire registered merchant fleet, the gross tonnage of the regular merchant fleet accounted for 95 per cent and vessels entered in the Register of Merchant Vessels for 87 per cent.

The number of vessels in the regular merchant fleet has increased by five compared to the situation at the turn of the previous year.

Most of the vessels in the regular merchant fleet were cargo ships. The biggest category by gross tonnage was ro-ro cargo ships.

The gross tonnage of ro-ro passenger ships and ro-ro cargo ships was more than half of the tonnage of the entire regular merchant fleet.

Ro-ro ships are vessels where cargo is loaded and unloaded by moving it on wheels onto and off the ship on ramps in the stern and bow or through side doors (roll on/roll off).

The majority of vessels entered in the Register of Merchant Vessels were other dry cargo ships, ro-ro cargo ships and special purpose ships.

The gross tonnage of ro-ro passenger ships and ro-ro cargo ships made up 73 per cent of the volume of the entire Register of Merchant Vessels.