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Environment Transport

Registered Vessels and Shipping Tonnage, Monthly

Data from Jan 1995 to Nov 2025

Last updated: 18 Dec 2025, 12:07 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.)

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 December 29, 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)

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Environment Transport

Registered Vessels and Shipping Tonnage, Monthly

Data from Jan 1995 to Nov 2025

Last updated: 18 Dec 2025, 12:07 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.)

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