“Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet”: with 80% of the global trade being transported by ships, the stakes for 2020 World Maritime Day are high. Nothing less of the survival of our marine ecosystem.
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Our oceans are filling up with ships. Today, the world commercial fleet consists of approximately 95 000 vessels, with a combined weight of 1.92 billion dead-weight tonnage (weight while empty). Dry bulk carriers, which carry iron ore, coal, grain and other cargo, account for the largest share of total tonnage at over 40%.
They are followed by oil tankers at 30% and container ships at 13%. To give an idea of what 1.92 billion tonnes represent, the biomass of all the fish in the ocean is estimated at 2 billion tonnes. And this number is of empty merchandise ships, it does not account for the cargo they carry or all other types of vessels (fishing, military, recreation, tourism etc.).
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