Japan: coastal shipping freight volume 2021

In the fiscal year 2021, around 324.66 million tons of cargo were transported via coastwise shipping in Japan, increasing by 6.1 percent compared to the previous fiscal year. Commercial shipping accounted for roughly 323.76 million tons of domestic maritime freight, private shipping for the rest.

Volume of freight transported domestically via coastwise vessels in Japan from fiscal year 2012 to 2021 (in million metric tons)

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

fiscal years 2012 to 2021; the Japanese fiscal year runs from April 1 of the stated year to March 31 of the following year

Special properties

including business-use and private-use vessels; excluding vessels navigating rivers or lakes only

Supplementary notes

The Coastwise Shipping Business Act (Act No. 151 of 1950) obliges shipowners to register/report vessels used for domestic port-to-port freight shipping businesses, as defined by this act, at/to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Moreover, shipowners must report their vessels for private use even if they do not employ them for such businesses but utilize vessels of at least 100 gross tons or 30 meters in length for coastwise shipping.
This survey limited its scope of freight on business-use vessels to that on vessels of at least 20 gross tons.

Values have been rounded.

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