Forecasts for maritime transport

Forecasts and estimates of the crisis in maritime transport

The past few years have been extremely successful for the maritime industry, Therefore, it is understandable that more and more companies began to want to take something from this extremely large pie. This was manifested primarily in the dynamic expansion of the ship fleet, whereas a decade ago, units with a carrying capacity of fourteen thousand container units were the norm, Today, the standard has moved to almost twenty thousand TEU and nearly a length 400 meters. Zaczęła się także znacznie zwiększać ilość kontenerowców o różnym tonażu, większość firm z tej branży zdecydowała się na budowę kolejnych maszyn, które albo już zwodowano, albo będzie to następować w najbliższym okresie czasu. Lecz działania takie przyczyniły się do tego, że w pewnej chwili pojawiła się bardzo duża liczba jednostek, która w dużej mierze się przyczyniła do aktualnie występującego kryzysu na rynku transportu morskiego. Branża z bardzo dużym niepokojem spogląda w szczególności na rok 2016, bo właśnie wtedy oddawane będą kolejne jednostki, will further increase the already enormous competition among maritime shipowners.

Experts predict, that the next year will definitely be quite difficult, This position was jointly presented at the recently organized Capital Link conference in the capital of Great Britain. The main reason for this situation is the excessive amount of cargo space in the holds, in particular in the perspective of subsequent vessels put into service, which ultimately led to a difficult bidding war for everyone. Lower demand for the transport of dry raw materials also contributed to a small extent to the current crisis, mainly iron and coal. This is strongly related to a lot of changes in the Chinese economy, which some time ago became the largest global buyer of such products. The weakening economy in this country is unlikely to improve the already poor situation of the maritime industry and is constantly being carefully monitored.. The current global crisis has contributed to the first victims, because a few months ago one of the companies from Japan had to ask the government for help, and the shipowner Global Maritime Investment Cyprus Ltd declared bankruptcy.