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Thursday, 09 January 14
THE SHIPPING MARKET IN 2013 AND LOOKING FORWARD GLOBAL ECONOMY: STEADY AS SHE GOES UPWARDS - BIMCO
 Over the past year, developed economies have gained traction while developing and emerging economies have suffered from slower growth. Despite key economic regions’ notable fiscal policies aimed at stimulating growth, there is still no full-blown and self-sustainable economic recovery. For the second quarter of 2013, Europe recorded the first positive GDP growth numbers in eighteen months, a healthy contrast to the previous double-dip recession of earlier quarters. However, rising unemployment, particularly among young people, continue to be the main concern of the euro-zone policy makers.
With a projected growth in the US GDP of 2.6%, the quantitative easing programme of the US Central Bank continues to be the vital ingredient to uphold the country’s positive momentum; there is little will or ability by Congress to exercise other effective fiscal policies.
In Asia, the world’s second and third largest economies provide added comfort for solid international shipping demand in 2014. China is on track for a softer landing with GDP growth at 7.3%, while Japan is driven forward by a determined effort labelled “Abenomics” that is set out to boost the country’s monetary base, bringing back inflation and lifting GDP.
The distribution of economic growth is set to shift in favour of demand driven by advanced economies. This will affect individual shipping segments differently.
In short, the signs of recovery continue, however fragile they may seem. IMF expects 2014 GDP and world import volume growth to hit a three-year high at 3.6% and 4.8% respectively. Europe will crawl away from the abyss bringing with it slightly higher demand for containerships and tankers. The driver in the US will be strong private demand and increased domestic oil production. This should benefit containerships and product tankers.
Growth in emerging market and developing economies is expected to remain strong at 5.1% in 2014, supported by solid domestic demand, recovering exports, and supportive fiscal, monetary and financial conditions. Generally a positive sign for all shipping sectors.
Supply: Will the excessive ordering postpone the recovery?
All the main shipping segments remain heavy on the supply side, causing great volatility in freight rates. Fortunately, the industry has now improved its ability to apply counter-balancing measures to such a degree that even the most oversupplied sectors may experience periodic healthy earnings.
Looking at the newbuilding market developments during 2013, yards aspiring to fill capacity continued to tempt owners with low prices and with some success. With the high cost of fuel, shipowners’ quest for more fuel-efficient or eco tonnage continues to be the main motivator, filling berths and driving newbuilding prices upwards. There appears to be no scarcity of capital for what investors may see as healthy business, but the traditional bank lending has declined and new sources of capital made their entry into the market such as private equity and debt investors.
Tonnage demand in 2013 turned out a bit weaker than initially expected, however, on the supply side the fleet continued to outweigh demand across all segments. 2014 is likely to see a change for the better, as the pace of deliveries slows down, perhaps except for product tankers.
Looking forward to 2014, BIMCO expects the dry bulk fleet to grow by 4.4% [2013E:5.9%] as both deliveries and recycling activity cool off. For the tankers, we expect the dirty segment to grow by 2.9% [2013E:2.3%] negatively affected by small recycling volumes whereas the clean sector will touch a 4-year high at 4.0% [2013E:3.2%]. Supply growth in the containership segment is estimated at 5.7% [2013E:5.9%].
Dry Bulk: Improving fundamentals as demand outstrips supply growth
BIMCO expects dry bulk demand to grow at 4.5 to 6%, driven forward by the major bulk trades: iron ore, steam coal and coking coal, with grain in a supporting role. China remains in the driving seat, a scenario that will benefit the larger ships more than the smaller ones.
Following a rather uneventful first half of 2013, July and August were on fire, one that raged through September and October bringing Capesize rates north of USD 42,000 per day. Expanding Chinese steel production and restocking of iron ore were at the centre of the action.
In 2014 and beyond, the economic and social progress in the main developing nations that seek inexpensive energy and prosperity will set the tone and affect shipping demand positively.
Volatility is likely to rise as the market balance improves. Positive demand shocks will benefit owners and operators to a higher extent than in previous years. The significant oversupply of dry bulk tonnage will, however, influence the pace of the recovery as will the deliveries that follow on from the many newbuilding contracts signed during 2013.
Tanker: The US oil story develops
An uninspiring crude tanker market throughout most of 2013 was fortunately disrupted by an unexpectedly rally in VLCC freight rates during the final quarter.
In the product tanker market, expectations strengthen for this to be the first shipping segment to recover from the market downturn. 2014 is set for stronger demand growth than seen in 2013, but the year will also bring about a larger fleet to cater for expected growth in demand. Having said that, the fundamentals appear to have improved during 2013 although this has yet to be reflected in the freight rates.
Most of the changes to the established, well-known tanker trade routes stem from the fast-track changes in the US domestic oil market. Traditional front-haul routes into the US have reversed as more oil products are now exported.
For patient participants in the crude oil tanker market, the question will be whether China’s aim to diversify its sources of oil supply in favour of West Africa and South America, can offset the tonne-mile losses from the US lowering its long-haul imports. A quick calculation show that for every barrel of crude oil lost from the Arabian Gulf to the US, we need two extra barrels to head for the Far East in order to prevent a reduction in tonne-mile demand.
Container: Moving forward on a knife’s edge
Volatility in freight rates is driven by a full-focused drive towards enhanced competitiveness by lowering unit costs through economies of scale. This is inducing carriers to deploy increasingly large vessels throughout their networks to optimise services.
The two significant spot freight rate hikes on the Shanghai to Europe trade lane during the second half of 2013 proved the point that balancing deployed tonnage to demand can bring sustainable earnings around – at least for a short while. For 2014, carriers are likely to bring tonnage into service while walking on a knife’s edge trying to balance the freight market.
The highest demand growth is seen on the smaller trades; the North-South trades in particular. The pulse on intra-Asia trades is beating fastest of all as ASEAN economic activity strengthens and picks up pace.
Going forward the charter markets will continue to suffer from the high volatility in the sector. Pressure stems from extensive cascading of tonnage and general oversupply. We expect this trend to ease somewhat in 2014, with the return of growth in volumes throughout the year, including the main-lanes, where better economic conditions will prevail in Europe alongside those in the US.
Source: BIMCO / Hellenic Shipping News
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Wednesday, 15 January 14
CFR SOUTH CHINA COAL SWAPS FALL BY 6.57% MONTH ON MONTH
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Wednesday, 15 January 14
INDONESIAN MINING LAW AVERTS BOP PRESSURE, RISKS REMAIN, FITCH SAYS
The last-minute intervention at the weekend by Indonesia's politicians to avert a significant disruption of mining activity and exports, should lim ...
Wednesday, 15 January 14
Q3 AND Q4 INDONESIAN COAL SWAPS DECLINE MONTH ON MONTH
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Wednesday, 15 January 14
PANAMAX: PACIFIC - REMAINED QUIET; ATLANTIC - CONTINUED THEIR RETREAT
COALspot.com: The holiday hangover seems well underway for the Dry Bulk market that saw more ground being lost this past week. The BDI has closed of ...
Tuesday, 14 January 14
AUSTRALIAN NEWCASTLE PORT'S WEEKLY COAL EXPORTS FALL 18.28 %
COALspot.com: In the week ended January 13, power plant and semi-soft coking coal shipments from the port of Newcastle in Queensland, totalled 2.67 ...
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