US-flagged privately-owned merchant ships might be a smaller share of ships worldwide than you'd expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_merchant_navy_cap

US-flagged privately-owned merchant ships might be a smaller share of ships worldwide than you'd expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_merchant_navy_capacity_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_merchant_navy_capacity... Liberia rules the waves.