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 Gross tonnage of commercial vessels (GT)
Characteristic Description
Name Gross tonnage of commercial vessels (GT) by Declaring port and Type of flow of vessels; Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Maritime transport of passengers and goods survey
First available period January 2007
Last available period June 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Declaring port
  • Type of flow of vessels
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  In extracommunity trade is the calender year during which the goods are imported or exported and is determined by the date of acceptance of the Single Administrative Document by Customs Authorities. In intracommunity trade is the calendar year during which the event that originates the intracommunity transaction occurred, i.e., for arrivals, at the time of receipt of the goods by the company and for dispatches, at the time the goods left the company.
  • COMMERCIAL VESSEL:  A vessel for the transport of passengers and/or goods.
  • GROSS TONNAGE:  A measure of the total volume of a vessel, determined in accordance with the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships of 1969 and expressed in a round figure.
Measure unit (symbol) Gross tonnage (GT)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 24/08/2023


information presented in 28/3/2024