Commercial-use coastal cargo payload-distance in Japan FY 2013-2022
In the fiscal year 2022, coastwise shipping vessels realized a payload-distance of approximately 162.6 billion ton-kilometers in Japan, increasing from roughly 161.7 billion ton-kilometers in the previous year. Business-use coastwise vessels refer, in principle, to those operated, chartered, leased, or managed by coastal shipping businesses for goods transportation between domestic ports.