Number of ships by country of beneficial ownership | Iraq
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Merchant fleet of Iraq (country of beneficial ownership) in 2025 amounted to 31, which is 6.06% less than in 2024, when it was 33 ships. This is the first year of decline after a period of growth. According to the UNCTAD data, since 2014, this indicator has increased in 1.35 times. The lowest number of ships was recorded in 2014, with a value of 23. The maximum of Iraq was in 2024, when it reached 33 ships. The vessels covered in this table include all propelled sea-going merchant vessels of 1000 gross tons (GT) and above, including offshore drill ships and Floating Production, Storage and Offloading units (FPSOs). Military vessels, yachts, waterway vessels, fishing vessels, and offshore fixed and mobile platforms and barges are excluded.
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About indicator
"Ownership” refers to “Beneficial Ownership Location”: it indicates the economy in which the company that has the main commercial responsibility for the vessel is located. The economy of beneficial ownership may be different from the country in which the vessel is registered. The vessels covered in this table include all propelled sea-going merchant vessels of 1000 gross tons (GT) and above, including offshore drill ships and Floating Production, Storage and Offloading units (FPSOs).
Military vessels, yachts, waterway vessels, fishing vessels, and offshore fixed and mobile platforms and barges are excluded. For ships that do not have DWT recorded in the raw data, UNCTAD estimates DWT based on the GT and type of the ship. For 2023, 1004 ship of a total of 56591 (1.8 per cent) lacked a DWT measure. These are primarily small ships representing 0.16 per cent of the estimated total DWT of the world fleet. This proportion is relatively bigger for some individual economies and ship types.
