§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Trade what drift there has been of shipping from the United Kingdom
Transfers of Ships from the United Kingdom Register for Further Trading: Analysis by Flag of New Registry 1978 1979 1980* '000 Nos. 000 Nos. '000 Nos. Grt Grt Grt Argentina — — — — 9 2 Bangladesh 16 2 — — — — Bermuda 13 4 14 9 2 1 Cayman Islands 3 3 8 4 3 2 Canada 8 3 2 1 15 3 China 37 3 12 1 — — Cuba — — — — 18 2 Cyprus 77 17 56 7 25 3 France 138 3 — — 5 1 Greece 626 48 1,102 65 232 21 Holland 2 1 343 3 — — Honduras 2 1 9 2 1 1 Hong Kong 176 8 228 7 168 9 Ivory Coast — — 22 2 — — Italy 24 4 115 3 61 5 Korea 3 1 39 3 15 I Kuwait 26 4 — — — — Lebanon 3 2 2 2 10 2 Liberia 913 19 1,182 21 155 7 Malta — — 10 5 — — Neth. Antilles (Surinam) 161 2 — — — — Panama 299 36 172 30 177 17 Philippines 15 1 32 2 — — Saudi Arabia 209 2 254 3 125 3 Singapore 189 19 104 9 77 6 Taiwan 120 2 — — — — Thailand — — 30 3 — — West Germany — — 124 4 — — Others† 126 13 62 9 69 7 Totals‡ 3,183 198 3,919 195 1,165 93 * January to end November. † Includes the following flags to which only one ship was transferred in any one year—and for 1980 only, three ships for which the eventual registry is not yet known: Abu Dhabi, Australia, Bahamas, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Ghana, Gibraltar, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Irish Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Qatar, St. Helena, St. Vincent, Sweden, Syria, USSR and Yugoslavia. ‡ Due to rounding, sums of the constituent figures of lonnage do not agree with the totals shown.