Transport in Honduras - Merchant Marine

Merchant Marine

total: 306 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 848,150 GRT/980,995 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
ships by type: (1999 est.)
  • bulk carriers 26
  • cargo ships 187
  • chemical tankers 5
  • container ships 7
  • livestock carrier 1
  • passenger ships 2
  • passenger/cargo ships 4
  • petroleum tanker 43
  • refrigerated cargo ships 15
  • roll-on/roll-off 9
  • short-sea passenger ships 5
  • vehicle carrier 2
note:

a flag of convenience registry; (1998 est.)

  • Russia owns 6 ships
  • Vietnam 1
  • Singapore 3
  • North Korea 1

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Famous quotes related to merchant marine:

    “People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)