Coastal Maritime Vessels and Units
Coastal Vessels Holding Call Signs
These are the vessels working in coastal transportation (in territorial water
only) or service and tug units, bunkering vessels and sailboats, etc.
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Total Number of Coastal Vessels: 130
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Operating: 112
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Non-Operating: 18
|
Passenger Crafts
|
30 |
27 |
3 |
| Tug boats |
44 |
38 |
6 |
|
Sailboats and Yachts
|
14 |
14 |
0 |
|
Special Service Vessels
|
20 |
17 |
3 |
|
Bunkering , Fuel and Water Vessels
|
10 |
6 |
4 |
|
Fishing Vessels
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
|
General Cargo Vessels
|
5 |
3 |
2 |
|
Dredges
|
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
Total
|
130
|
112
|
18
|
Distributing Coastal Operating Vessels by Type
Statistics
Maritime Unit
In 31/12/2005, the number of registered and recorded maritime units in Egypt
has reached 19.3 thousand maritime units. It is permitted for the registered
maritime units to move by the coast of Egyptian ports, as recorded maritime
units work inside the local port only (except for some kinds, which can sail
between Egyptian ports, on the condition that it would be towed by a vessel or
a registered unit.
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No. of EgyptianMaritime Units
|
19316
|
18888
|
428
|
|
No. of Recorded Maritime Units
|
13378 |
12967 |
411 |
|
No. of Registered Maritime Units
|
5940 |
5921 |
19 |
Distributing Maritime Units according to Type:
|
Fishing Unit
|
8011 |
7978 |
33 |
|
Trip and Passenger Units
|
8631 |
8401 |
230 |
|
Service & Cargo Transport Units
|
1445 |
1310 |
135 |
|
Crafts (except for trips & fishing)
|
1209 |
1179 |
30 |
|
Other Units
|
20 |
20 |
0 |
Maritime Operating Units (Distributed by type)
Conclusion
Egyptian owned vessels can carry about 11% of the Egyptian foreign trade.
Unfortunately they carry only 5.7% since the merchant fleet is in a bad need of
crude fuel deep sea tankers, liquefied natural gas tankers and container
vessels. Egypt has to provide these types of vessels in the future in addition
to renewing and increasing the number of existing general cargo and dry bulk
vessels.
There are great investment opportunities in owning vessels operating in
non-coastal maritime services for petroleum and gas fields and platforms to
replace the foreign vessels.