Statistical Terms Glossary

The movement of a passenger from the port at which the journey begins to the port at which it ends. For some passengers, notably cruise passengers, this can be the same port.

The combination of the port of embarkation and the port of disembarkation of passengers conveyed by sea whatever itinerary is followed.

A transport service provided by a seagoing vessel at sea.

The movement of a vessel directly from one port to another without a port call at an intermediate port.

The movement of seagoing vessels at sea.

The movement of goods and/or passengers using merchant ships on journeys undertaken wholly or partly at sea.
Note: This definition includes:
- The one-port transport, i.e. the movement of goods shipped to offshore installations, or for dumping at sea, or reclaimed from the seabed and unloaded in port;
- Bunker oil shipped to vessels offshore;
- Fluvio-maritime movement of goods and/or passengers by merchant ships.
Excluded are:
- Bunkers and stores supplied to vessels in port;
- Movement of goods and/or passengers on inland waterways vessels between seaports and inland waterway ports (it is included in inland waterway transport);
- Movement of goods carried internally between different basins or docks of the same port.

Enterprise carrying out in one or more places activities for the production of sea transport services and whose main activities according to the value added is sea transport.

Enterprise carrying out in one or more places activities for the supply of sea transport services as its main activity according to value added.

Powered ship designed for the towing and/or pushing of ships or other floating structures. Port tugs are included.

When companies from rich countries buy fishing rights in the waters of poor countries.

A large isolated elevation characteristically of conical form.

A programme that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

In the hot deck imputation procedure, the act of searching for a donor record.

A transport operation partly by inland waterways and partly by sea, without trans-shipment. It can be operated by inland waterway vessel or seagoing ships.

Closed season. The banning of fishing activity (in an area or of an entire fishery) for a few weeks or months, to protect juveniles or spawners.

Workers in seasonal employment are workers who hold explicit or implicit contracts of employment, where the timing and duration of the contract is significantly influenced by seasonal factors, such as the climatic cycle, public holidays and/or agricultural harvests. These workers may be classified as employees or own-account workers according to the specific characteristics of the employment contract.