The Danish merchant fleet is still growing

The number of Danish owned vessels are still on the rise. Denmark’s merchant fleet is now the fourth largest in EU and accounts for four per cent of the global tonnage. Many of the new ships are tankers. Data from Statistics Denmark show that these last years the capacity of the Danish fleet of tank vessels has grown considerably. The strong growth of tank vessel capacity is probably due to a relatively favourable market for tankers in 2008. On January 1, 2010, the total Danish tanker tonnage was 3.6 million gross tonnage distributed on 145 vessels. This is 0.7 million gross tonnage more than the previous year with 123 vessels.