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4 July 2008
Africa Though already
awarded in 2005, the Tanzanian Parliament reportedly
voted now to cancel -the extension
until 2025 of - the concession to run Tanzanian International Container Terminal
Services (TICTS) at Dar es
Salaam. The facility is in the hands of Hutchison Port
Holdings (70%) and local investors.
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3 July 2008
Far East
Vietnam found a way prevent
carriers from introducing surcharges or rate increases to compensate for delays
in its congested ports: carriers doing so risk having their operating licence
revoked.
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2 July 2008
Mergers/Takeover It is understood that
interested parties in the acquisition of Hapag-Lloyd
will be required to make a provisional offer by mid-July, after which parent
TUI will shortlist preferred bidders for participation
in the due diligence process. The ultimate buyer will not own the Hapag-Lloyd
brand, if TUI gets its way, but just get leasing rights until 2011, after which
it should become the exclusive trademark for the holding company’s cruising and
airline business. The carrier’s work council said to be considering action if
any no so-called Hamburg-solution of Hamburgische
Seefahrtsbeteiligung Alfred Ballinn or similar guarantees for the staff come
out of the sales-process. Meanwhile, tanker tycoon John Fredriksen further
increased his shareholding in TUI to just over 15%, as an apparent sign of
confidence in good sales proceeds.
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1 July 2008
Europe - Far
East Hyundai joins CMA
CGM as a ship provider on latter’s weekly Europe-Far East
FAL service, supplying one of the nine 8,500-9,000 TEU
ships employed and thus replacing the unit so far operated by its New World
Alliance colleague MOL. The South Korean carrier will
also take slots on FAL3 in the same trade
lane.
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30 June 2008
Europe/Mediterranean - Far East Rocketing fuel cost and disappointing volume developments
caused Maersk Line to suspend its April 2007-launched Mediterranean-Far East AE5
service, reducing its overall capacity in this trade lane by around 7%. The
operation, using seven average 4,500 TEU ships, was already heavily affected by
labour issues in Piraeus and Thessaloniki. Schedules of three other slings
(AE2, AE7 and
AE8) will be reshuffled to keep overall port
coverage.
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27 June 2008
Newbuilding Sliding economy and stagnating volumes seems to take their
toll on the box ship charter market. While average charter rates have been going
down consistently since their peak in March this year, for the first time in a
long period a vessel risks leaving the shipyard without a charter deal attached.
Next month the 3,600 TEU “Nordwinter” will be delivered, but for the second time
in two weeks a liner operator pulled out of a prospective charter deal with its
owner Reederei Nord Klaus
Oldendorff.
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26 June 2008
Mediterranean - Far East The Grand Alliance with five ships
(Hapag-Lloyd, MISC,
NYK, OOCL) and the New World
Alliance with three (APL,
Hyundai, MOL) actually
merged into a single weekly operation their since February separate fortnightly
Far East-Black Sea services, but with above carriers then already swapping
slots. Average 5,200 TEU vessels will be deployed.
Hanjin and UASC charter
slots. Both operations were launched -on a weekly basis- in 2007; at the same
time as many other carriers launched new Black Sea links.
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25 June
Europe
- Far East More and more pundits start having second thoughts about
the actual strength of the Far East to Europe trade. Up to and
including April, total westbound growth (including the Mediterranean) of the Far
Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) carriers (making up for around
78% of the full trade capacity) was exactly 10% - this was 21% in the first
quarter of 2007 alone, ending up with (no less than) 19% up to and including
December. 2008 forecast was put at between 15 and 18%. Lots of things happened
in the relatively short time since the US housing market and all its associated
effects starting to manifest, further impacted by fuel prices and inflation,
altogether underlining what forecasts actually are … sophisticated crystal ball
gazing. The general feeling now seems to be that everybody should be happy if
10% overall westbound growth is actualised, though increasingly carriers are
bracing for single digit growth for not just this
year.
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24 June 2008
Intra-Europe MSC added a tenth loop to its portfolio of Baltic Feeder Services. The single 600 TEU vessel of the new link will
shuttle weekly between its Bremerhaven-hub and St. Petersburg.
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23 June 2008
Europe - Far East
China
Shipping
(AEX8) and CMA CGM (FAL4) will actually launch their joint
9,500 TEU-ship Europe-Far East service early next month, initially at a
fortnightly frequency, to become weekly by October (DL 23/08). The schedule,
eight ports only, has been fixed as: Zeebrugge,
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Port Kelang, Shanghai, Xiamen, Shenzhen (Yantian), Guangzhou
(Nansha), Port Kelang, Zeebrugge.
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Top 25 (2007) Container Liner Operators- Trading Profiles
This 7th annual edition, October
2007-published new edition of our most popular report offers an exclusive
insight into the world’s 25 largest liner-shipping companies, bound to grow
further and now jointly already accounting for:
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80% of the global full container trade
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85% of the world container fleet operating in liner
services
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88% of the orderbook for all cellular container vessels
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100% of all Very Large Container Ships of over 7,500 TEU, including all 10,000
TEU+ monsters
NEW
and unique features
in the 2007 issue include:
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Graphic “at-a-glance” services by main operator, displaying links between core
trading areas
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Assessment of carriers actually trading on a global basis
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Car/Cap Ratio©, an
indicator of the relation between the development of carryings and
capacity
- Scaled
container ship fleet overviews
The
fully updated contents furthermore encompasses:
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Existing TEU capacity and orderbook - full container carryings - container fleet
size - market shares in the main East-West trades - actual global
presence analysis
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Carrier profiles: full legal styles - 5-year capacity ranking - Car/Cap
Ratio© -
corporate
background - service developments - container ship fleet and operating capacity
- matrix of services and trade lanes - container terminal interests - other
operating activities - membership of carrier groups
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Analyses of the East-West Alliances’ capacities and market shares - named
North-South consortia
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A survey of Conferences, Discussion Agreements and other carrier
groupings; latest state of regulatory reviews
Any
and all information for this report has been collected, researched and processed
in August/October 2007.
After
the spectacular consolidation wave of 2005 and the consecutive integration pains
of 2006, carriers involved took a breather to prepare for the next step: not so
much more companies (all told, there still are nearly 60
profiles) but much, much larger ships instead. Will every current Top 25
operator having invested in those survive such an enormous increase of economy
of scale? Not yet this one, but many other answers about the main enablers of
globalisation are found in this 2007 edition of the Top 25 Container Liner
Operators - don’t miss it - it is IMMEDIATELY available!
Prices: -
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Transhipment & Feedering - Trades, Operators, Ships
This
NEW (August 2007) Dynamar report builds
on the previous 2004 publication (as well as various updated presentations by
the author, Mr. Dirk Visser), and completed with recent in-depth analyses
of all aspects of the worldwide transhipment and feedering markets. The reader
is offered an insight into a huge port activity and maritime industry that
lubricate the modern container liner trades and without which globalisation
could not reach the out-of-the-way places of this world. Contrary to the general
perception, the common feedership is still not much larger than 700 TEU on
average - those deployed by dedicated operators are still under 1,200 TEU.
Together, they lift a huge volume, which is outside the official statistics, but
can be estimated at well over 35 million TEU worldwide in 2006.The publication
contains five main sections:
TRANSHIPMENT
Setting the report’s framework:
Definitions; mainline services
concepts; hub-and-spoke; relay and interlining; hub port selection criteria;
dominant transhipment ports; hubs versus gateways, etc.
FEEDERING
Looking at the industry from a more
strategic and general view:
Definitions; types of feeder
operators; size, speed, design of feeder ships; industry consolidation; mainline
developments affecting feedering; scaling-up; hub port issues; organisation of
the feeder move; new hub-and-spoke projects; conclusions
TRADES
Five chapters on the main
feeder markets (Europe, Mediterranean, all Asia, Latin America, Others) and
their catchment regions; who-hubs-where; connections from the main ports; 5-year
hub and regional port statistics; regional transhipment-related port
projects
OPERATORS
Extensive biographies on more than
20 common feeder carriers (corporate background, recent developments, services,
fleet details); short profiles of another 15 (niche) operators; ranking
overviews including average feedership size by operator; carryings; the World’s
Top 5 Feeder Operators; extensive overview of the largest non-operating
owners
SHIPS
Feeder ship design and requirements;
pictures and plans of representative vessels in various size categories; new
concepts and projects; overview of non-operating owners
An Appendix with a variety of data completes
Transhipment & Feedering - Trades, Operators,
Ships - researched, analysed and compiled during the period
April-July 2007
Optional - there is an opportunity to
subscribe to annual updates of the report’s core information
The report is immediately available
- ordering via the publications section of this website.
Prices:
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format by E-mail - EUR 355
- Colour printed/bound by priority surface mail
EUR
375
- Both
.PDF and
colour printed/bound - EUR 420
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