Provision of Commercial Sea Transport Data

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The Requirement The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has a need for reliable, comprehensive, and easy-to-use information about the transport services provided or received by the UK shipping fleet, including any goods purchased during, or to support, the provision of transport.

Quarterly and Annual estimates are required broken down by ship type covering: o Passenger revenue collected outside the UK o Freight revenue for transporting goods o Charter receipts from a non-UK company o Charter payments to a non-UK company o Disbursements on bunkers/lubricants o Disbursements on catering, ship stores and other goods o Disbursements on services purchased o Repair and maintenance costs o Ship management fees Disbursements are voyage-related expenses, mainly incurred when ships visit ports.

Examples of the types of services purchased to include are: i) Cargo handling ii) Warehousing/storage charges iii) Port dues, pilotage, and towage, iv) Canal dues (Suez, Panama etc.) v) Maintenance of shore establishments abroad vi) Advances made to crews whilst abroad, whether UK nationals or not vii) Other Services such as agency fees/commissions incurred abroad It is essential for the data to be broken down into different ship types for both quarterly and annual data.

Examples of ship types to include are: o Container, Bulk carrier, and Other Dry Cargo o Tanker and Liquefied Gas Carrier o Offshore support vessels/non-cargo o Cruise/Passenger ships and Roll-on Roll-off ferries It is essential that the annual data can also be further broken-down by the: o Load and unload country for freight data. o Country the passenger revenue is collected from overseas or the residency of the non-UK passenger for passenger revenue. o Country the disbursement is incurred in regardless of where the payment was made for all disbursements. o Nationality of the company or the country the ship is being chartered to or from for the chartering data. o Number of non-UK vessels managed by UK companies and UK vessels managed by non-UK owners for the ship management fees data.

The data will need to be sent in an excel/csv format.

The quarterly data will need to be available one month after the quarter has ended and the annual data available five months after the year has ended....