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Registered Vessels and Shipping Tonnage, Monthly

Data from Jan 1995 to May 2025

Last updated: 17 Jun 2025, 10:00 SGT

MPA (Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore)

Dataset shows the monthly total number of registered vessels and shipping tonnage as at end of the period. (Latest month figures are preliminary estimates.)

Chart (Gross Tonnage)

Data explorer

RegisteredVesselsandShippingTonnageMonthly.csv (365 rows, 8.1 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Number Of Vessels Text	Gross Tonnage Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1995-01	2672	13260
1995-02	2687	13270
1995-03	2699	13411
1995-04	2717	13651
1995-05	2743	14140
1995-06	2758	14268
1995-07	2789	14498
1995-08	2814	14572
1995-09	2834	14694
1995-10	2867	14670

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Number Of Vessels	number_of_vessels	Text	-	-
Gross Tonnage	gross_tonnage	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_56f64b2d5a31eb0ee465cc51e83ac60a"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. (2017). Registered Vessels and Shipping Tonnage, Monthly (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_56f64b2d5a31eb0ee465cc51e83ac60a/view

About this dataset

Contact

norshazrin_ismail@mpa.gov.sg

Created on

30 Jun 2017

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MPA (Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore)