AEX Maritiem #1 | Groot, groter, grootst

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Op vrijdag 24 februari 2012 01:31 schreef Bolkesteijn het volgende:
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Asia-Europe Rates Rise on Maersk Capacity Cut
Spot rates rose 3 percent after carrier unveiled plans to cut capacity 9 percent

Spot freight rates on the westbound Asia-Europe trade lane rose 3 percent this week from the week before after Maersk Line announced plans to reduce vessel capacity on the route by 9 percent.

The World Container Index of spot prices for shipments from Shanghai to Rotterdam rose by $37 this week to $1,276 per 40-foot equivalent unit. The WCI fell by 3.2 percent, or $41 per FEU, to $1,239 last week after falling in most of the previous three weeks since the Chinese New Year.

Although there was no direct links betweeen Maersk’s Feb. 17 announcement on the trade lane and the rate gain, the mere sign that the Danish carrier will cut capacity set the tone for higher rates on the lane. Carriers have been hit by acute overcapacity and low freight rates on the world’s largest trade lane.

The WCI, which is compiled by a joint venture between Drewry Shipping Consultants and Singapore’s Cleartrade Exchange, is 48.6 percent lower this week than in the same week last year, when it was $2,482 per FEU.

Most major carriers have announced either rate or surcharge hikes of $700 to $800 per 20-foot equivalent unit to be applied on Asia-Europe services starting March 1. But many shippers have questioned whether those increases will stick.

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Maersk Drops Option to Order Last 10 Triple-E Ships
Danish carrier won't deploy 180,000 TEUs of capacity on Asia-Europe trade lane

The decision by Maersk Line not to exercise an option to order another 10 mega-containerships with capacities of 18,000 20-foot equivalent units was no surprise considering overcapacity on the Asia-Europe trade, said a container shipping analyst.

“That had been implied quite a while ago,” said Martin Dixon, editor of Drewry’s Container Freight Rate Insight. “There’s too much capacity, and demand on the Asia-Europe trade where those vessels would have been deployed is slowing.”

Maersk Line ordered 10 Triple-E ships a year ago this month from South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. The world’s largest container line also had an option to order another 20 of the ships, and later exercised its option to order 10 of them.

If Maersk had exercised its option to order the last 10 of the 30 so-called Triple-E ships, those ships would have been delivered around 2015.

Dixon said there are reports that other lines looking to hold back orders going into 2013. “Demand is unlikely to be strong on that trade in the two years ahead,” he said.

When Maersk announced on Feb. 17 that it would reduce capacity on the Asia-Europe trade by 9 percent, Maersk said it would “not declare” its option for the last 10 Triple-E ships. Maersk also said it will consider additional opportunities to reduce capacity, including redelivery of time charter tonnage, the use of lay-ups and slow-steaming.

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Arctic shipping set for record as sea ice melts

Arctic shipping is set for a record year, underlining how melting sea ice is raising the prospect of an important new route for trade between Asia and Europe that shaves thousands of kilometres off the trip.

As of Friday, the administrators of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) – which follows the north coast of Russia – had granted permission to 204 ships to sail this year. In 2012, only 46 ships sailed the entire length from Europe to Asia, up from four vessels just two years earlier.

Experts are forecasting a further large rise in Arctic shipping in coming decades but say it will take several years before it is a commercially viable alternative to the southern route through the Suez Canal.

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Chinese cargo ship sets sail for Arctic short-cut

A Chinese cargo ship is attempting the country’s first ever commercial transit of the Northeast Passage above Russia, as a changing climate opens a short-cut that promises to reduce shipping times between China and Europe.

The Yong Sheng, a 19,000-tonne vessel operated by state-owned Cosco Group, set sail on August 8 from Dalian, a port in northeastern China, bound for Rotterdam. According to an announcement on Cosco’s website, the journey via the Bering Strait could shave as much as 15 days off the traditional route through the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea.

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'Lagere overslag haven Rotterdam door staatssteun'

De Rotterdamse haven heeft last van overheidssteun voor zeehavens in buurlanden. De Duitse en Vlaamse overheden steunen hun zeehavens met 1,18 en 1,12 euro per overgeslagen ton goederen per jaar, blijkt uit onderzoek dat minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructuur en Milieu) liet uitvoeren.

De haven van Rotterdam zou 7 procent meer containers kunnen overslaan als Europese havens onder gelijke omstandigheden zouden concurreren, denken de onderzoekers van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam en onderzoeksbureau Ecorys.

Volgens minister Schultz verstoren de verschillen tussen buurlanden de markt. Ze wil dat de Europese Unie werk maakt van duidelijke richtlijnen voor staatssteun. De bewindsvrouw stuurt daarom de conclusies van de onderzoekers naar het Europees Parlement en de Europese Commissie, het dagelijks bestuur van de EU.

Nederland steunt de eigen zeehavens ook, maar wel voor een fors lager bedrag dan buurlanden. Het zou gaan om zo'n 6 cent per overgeslagen ton goederen per jaar.

Het Havenbedrijf bevestigt dat oneerlijke concurrentie leidt tot het verlies van lading aan concurrenten in Hamburg en Antwerpen. De Nederlandse overheid zou volgens de havenbeheerder een voorbeeld kunnen nemen aan buurlanden, die soepeler omgaan met de Europese vennootschapsbelasting voor havenbedrijven.

''Andere landen hebben kans gezien hier zo mee om te gaan dat havenbedrijven in de praktijk geen of nauwelijks vennootschapsbelasting betalen'', laat het Havenbedrijf weten.