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Which Country Has the Most Maritime Oil Tankers?

Number of Maritime Oil Tankers (vessels), 2011

Transport | February 26, 2018

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Based on a comparison of 65 countries in 2011, Greece ranked the highest in number of maritime oil tankers with 43,883 vessels followed by Singapore and Malta. On the other end of the scale was Iceland with 0.465 vessels, Lithuania with 1.62 vessels and Kenya with 2.07 vessels.

Data for more countries are available at Number of Maritime Oil Tankers indicator page.

Number of Maritime Oil Tankers	Unit	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
China	vessels															6,057	7,234	7,716	8,063	8,091
Denmark	vessels															2,858	2,846	3,155	2,933	4,239
France	vessels															4,330	4,708	4,478	4,718	4,744
Greece	vessels															31,035	27,741	32,262	38,273	38,750
India	vessels															7,872	8,310	8,767	8,791	8,629
Indonesia	vessels	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...			1,651	1,599	2,052	2,289	2,192
Italy	vessels															5,138	5,374	5,533	5,616	6,279
Japan	vessels															5,504	4,723	4,729	4,217	3,896
Malaysia	vessels															3,614	4,115	4,459	5,087	4,796
Malta	vessels															12,247	12,476	13,627	15,354	19,374
Norway	vessels															10,971	8,988	11,616	12,046	11,494
Russia	vessels	...														2,170	2,029	1,956	1,720	1,851
Singapore	vessels															22,317	28,130	28,934	29,576	31,118
USA	vessels															4,245	4,402	4,694	3,981	3,769
United Kingdom	vessels															8,482	10,121	11,098	10,630	11,436