Editing Transport in Norway (section)

===Merchant marine===
In 2007 Norway was the fifth largest beneficial ship owning country, with 5% of the world's fleet;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marisec.org/shippingfacts/worldtrade/top-20-beneficial-ownership-countries.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318124942/http://www.marisec.org/shippingfacts/worldtrade/top-20-beneficial-ownership-countries.php |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2008-03-18 |title=Top 20 beneficial ownership countries (January 2007) |author=Shippingfacts |year=2007 |access-date=2008-07-16 }}</ref> though a high portion of these were registered in [[flag of convenience|flags of convenience]], Norway had 15 million [[deadweight tonnage]] of ships under its flag.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marisec.org/shippingfacts/worldtrade/top-20-largest-shipping-flags.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318121434/http://www.marisec.org/shippingfacts/worldtrade/top-20-largest-shipping-flags.php |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2008-03-18 |title=Top 20 largest shipping flags (January 2007) |author=Shippingfacts |year=2007 |access-date=2008-07-16 }}</ref> The government has created an internal register, the [[Norwegian International Ship Register]] (NIS), as a subset of the [[Norwegian Ship Register]]; ships on the NIS enjoy many benefits of flags of convenience and do not have to be crewed by Norwegians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nis-nor.no/NIS.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615091344/http://www.nis-nor.no/NIS.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-06-15 |title=NIS |author=Norwegian Ship Registers |access-date=2008-07-15 |author-link=Norwegian Ship Registers }}</ref>