The self-governing territory of Bermuda has the fewest national flag ships on this list: a mere 13. ![]() shipping company is Honolulu, Hawaii-based Matson, which provides services to Alaska, Guam, Micronesia, the South Pacific, China and Japan. The United States ranks number 10 with a little over 57 million deadweight tons in carrying capacity, representing 2.79% of total world capacity. This number tells you how much a ship can carry, not including its own weight.Īll data comes from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD) and is as of January 2020. For this list, I chose to rank countries based not on the number of vessels in their fleets but on carrying capacity, as measured in deadweight tons (DWTs). There are a few different ways to measure the size of a shipping fleet.
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