Abstract
The shipping industry entered 2009 in a state of crisis. All shipping sectors
had been hit hard, with the dry
bulk sector struggling to recover from a
plunge in November 2008 that took the Baltic Dry Index to a
nine-year low.
Rumours persisted that containers were being shipped for a little as US$200
and that the
only thing keeping the liquid bulk sector afloat was that
tankers were being used for floating storage
rather than the actual
transport of oil. It is in the climate of uncertainty that BMI has launched a
new set
of reports to its portfolio the BMI Shipping Reports.
BMI' s
research and analysis of the shipping sector indicates that Poland' s maritime
trade sector is heading
into a downturn in 2009. This can be seen in our
forecasts for the Polish shipping sector, where we have
used measurements
of throughput at the country' s main ports of Gdansk and Gdynia. We forecast
that
total tonnage through the ports will fall by 15.5% and 5%
respectively. Container volumes at the facilities
are also expected to
decline with BMI estimating that container throughput will fall by 10.5%
to
166,225TEUs at the port of Gdansk and will decline by 5.6% to
605,585TEUs at the port of Gdynia.
BMI' s Poland Shipping Report offers
data from previous years of its port throughput, which has been
used along
with our forecasts of the country' s imports and exports to predict throughput
trends for the
next five years (2009-2012) as well as detailed analysis to
explain our assumptions behind these forecasts.
The BMI Poland Shipping
Report offers in-depth analysis into the three main shipping sectors of
container, bulk dry and bulk liquid and detailing the strategy that major
shipping companies in these
sectors have so far implemented to protect
themselves against the downturn. We also offer analysis of
other tactics
that we feel operators in these sectors could use over 2009 as trade continues
to contract.
The report offers an overview of country' s main ports of
Gdansk and Gdynia with analysis of the ports'
facilities, expansions and
developments that are already under way at the ports or planned to increase
the
ports working capabilities as well as details of multi-modal links
from the ports to the rest of the country' s
transport network.
Finally
the Poland Shipping Report offers an in-depth overview of 11 of the main
global shipping
companies (China Shipping, CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen,
Hanjin, Hapag Lloyd, Maersk, MOL,
MSC, NOL, NYK.) BMI analyses the firms'
vital financial statistics, the companies' different operating
sectors and
their most recent activity. On top of this, the Poland Shipping Report offers
a country specific
overview on Maersk and CMA CGM' s shipping operations in
the country.
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