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(1) Oceangoing fleet
Japan's holding number of oceangoing meet of more than 3,000 gross tons
at the end of the fiscal year of 1973 was 230 tankers with 14,740,000 gross
tons and 922 cargo vessels with 16,490,000 gross tons and the total of 1,152
vessels with 31,230,000 gross tons. Although the number of vessels and tonnage
are continuously increasing for tankers, the number of vessels has decreased
and the number of tonnage has started to show a crablike course for cargo vessels.
(Fig. ll-(l)-1)
In contrast to this, chartered foreign vessels which the shipping companies
charter from foreign nations and operate have continued an increase year after
and at the end of the fiscal year of 1973, they have amounted to 87 tankers
of 5,110,000 gross tons and 839 cargo vessels of 15,650,000 gross tons and the
total of 926 vessels of 20,760,000 gross tons and in total, they have come to
occupy a volume which corresponds to two-thirds of the oceangoing fleet of Japanese
flag vessels (Gross ton ratio).(Fig. ll-(l)-2)
(2) Transport volume
The transport volume of Japan's fleet (Total of Japanese flag vessels and
chartered foreign vessels) for 1973 was 21,900,000 tons for export (Decrease
of 10.3% in comparison to the preceding year.), 395,920,000 tons (23.4% increase)
for import and 82,910,000 tons (37.3% increase) between foreign countries and
in total, it was 572,000,000 tons (23.4% increase). When this is classified
into each division of oceangoing marine transportation, it is as shown in Table
II-(I)-3
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