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Current Application Release:
February 2010 |
Next Release:
May 2010
What Impact
Did the Chinese
Economy Have on
Shipping in 2009
– and what
can we expect in
2010?
Dr Arlie Sterling, President of Marsoft, spoke to the Hellenic/Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce Sixteenth Annual Joint Shipping Conference in February.
To read his presentation
click here.
Client Meeting
Rotterdam
The Q1 2010 European meeting will be held by courtesy of Fortis Bank
Nederland on
Tuesday, 9th
March.
For
details please
see
attached or contact
jan.fraser.jenkins@marsoft.com
Client Meeting Singapore
Marsoft will be holding a client meeting in Singapore on 15th April. This is being hosted by Standard Chartered Bank. There will be presentations on the dry bulk, tanker and containership markets by Marsoft. The guest speaker will be announced later.
For further
details contact
Monika Krogulska
monika.krogulska@marsoft.com
Client Meeting
Hong Kong
The
next client
meeting in
Hong Kong
will be on 20th
April, hosted by
Uni-Asia Finance
Corporation.
Further details
will be
announced
shortly.
For
more information
contact Monika
Krogulska monika.krogulska@marsoft.com
Marsoft's LNG
Tanker Market
Services/h2>
The world’s LNG
fleet grew by
about 8.4
million m3
of cargo
capacity, or
25%, in 2008 –
the largest
growth ever
recorded for the
LNGC fleet – and
is set to grow
by a similar
amount in 2009.
Combined
with weakened
LNG trade growth
due to the
global economic
slowdown, this
has led to
significant
overcapacity in
the LNG fleet,
and very weak
earnings for LNG
carriers engaged
in short-term
trades.
What are
the prospects
for a recovery
in this market?
When are
new LNG orders
likely to
materialize?
Marsoft’s
forecast of the
LNG trades and
shipping market
conditions
suggests that we
are likely to
see another 12
months of
depressed rates.
Keys to
recovery are a
return of Asian
import demand
growth and the
volatile US LNG
import
situation.
Ordering
is expected to
resume in 2010;
and it is
possible that
LNG trade and
shipping market
conditions could
revert to supply
constrained
patterns by
2012.
For further details about Marsoft’s
LNG Tanker Market Services please contact one of our offices.
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