{"title":"Ships and boats market in Estonia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ee/345-ships-and-boats","scope":"Estonia","category":{"cpvGroup":"345","label":"Ships and boats"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Estonia awarded 81 supply contracts for ships and boats through award notices on TED; the 6 of them that state a value (7.4%) add up to €1.2 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Estonia imported €33.3 million of goods in the customs headings matched to ships and boats in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8901, 8903, 8905, 8904 and 8902; all buyers, not only public ones), up 45.1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 38 companies have won 104 public supply contracts for ships and boats in Estonia, in 26 award notices from 8 public buyers.","71.2% of these awards went to companies registered in Estonia; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.","The five companies that win most often hold 25% of all awards.","14.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":104,"awardNotices":26,"winningCompanies":38,"publicBuyers":8,"awardsWithValue":23,"awardedValueEur":87852971,"localAwards":74,"foreignAwards":30,"top5Share":0.25,"singleBidAwards":15,"awardsWithKnownBids":104,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":9,"awardNotices":7,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":26034888},{"year":2025,"awards":81,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":1203667},{"year":2026,"awards":14,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":60614416}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8901","label":"Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods"},{"hs4":"8903","label":"Yachts and other vessels for pleasure or sports"},{"hs4":"8905","label":"Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function"},{"hs4":"8904","label":"Tugs and pusher craft"},{"hs4":"8902","label":"Fishing vessels"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":22919173},{"year":2024,"valueEur":51388300},{"year":2025,"valueEur":33259063}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Estonia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €6.43 billion in 2025, 15.4% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":6429000000,"percentOfGdp":15.4,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":33.7,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Ships and boats market in Estonia\", https://cresques.com/markets/ee/345-ships-and-boats, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}