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The World's Leading and Only Monthly Magazine for the Dry Bulk Industry i DRY CARGO DC international ISSUE NO.187 JANUARY 2016 FEATURES Trade Outlook Dutch Ports Focus US Gulf Germany Report Continuous Ship Unloaders The world’s leading and only monthly magazine for the dry bulk industry VERSTEGEN GRAB MORE MORE GRAB 6ERSTEGEN'RIJPERS"6s0/"OXs"!.IEUWEGEINs4HE.ETHERLANDS TEL sFAX EMAILINFO VERSTEGENNETsWEBSITEWWWVERSTEGENNET CONTENTS A new SENNEBOGEN 835 DCi electric material handler has been working at the port of Szczecin, Poland since mid 2015 and unloads tonnes of fertilizer and animal feed. SENNEBOGEN Maschinenfabrik GmbH Sennebogenstraße 10 D-94315 Straubing, Germany T: +49 9421 540-0 E: [email protected] W: www.sennebogen.com PUBLISHERS Jason Chinnock [email protected] JANUARY 2016 issue Andrew Hucker-Brown [email protected] EDITORIAL featuring... Louise Dodds-Ely Editor [email protected] Jay Venter Deputy Editor [email protected] TRADE & COMMODITIES Samantha Smith Directories [email protected] Grain and soya trade outlook uneven 2 Stephanie Hodgkins Office Manager DRY BULK TRADE CONFRONTED BY STRONG HEADWINDS 5 [email protected] SALES Lourens van Emmenis Sales Director SHIPPING & TRANSPORT [email protected] UK P&I Club advises shipowners on stowaways 17 Matthew Currin Senior Sales Executive [email protected] BULK CARRIER MARKET: MORE ROUGH SEAS AHEAD 19 CORRESPONDENTS Brazil Patrick Knight PORTS, TERMINALS & LOGISTICS Canada Ray Dykes India Kunal Bose Gdansk improvements expand dry bulk handling capacity 23 Asia David Hayes EDNAV VESSEL CALLS AT NTWERP Europe Barry Cross F A 25 Malaysia Wira Sulaiman LOOKING INTO BULK IN THE NETHERLANDS 29 Philippines Fred Pundol South Africa Iain McIntosh UK Maria Cappuccio REGIONAL REPORT UK Michael King UK Richard Scott GERMAN BULK IN FOCUS 45 USA Colby Haines USA Walter Mitchell ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Business Publishing International Managing open-stored commodities effectively 76 Corporate House, 11 Sinembe Crescent Martin Engineering announces EAC certification 83 La Lucia Ridge, South Africa, 4051 Tel: +27 31 583 4360 WHY CLEAN AIR IS IMPORTANT 87 Fax: +27 31 566 4502 DIGGING IN: CSUSUPCLOSE 93 Email: [email protected] REELING IT IN? 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Please complete the order form on the Advertisers’ Index page to guarantee delivery of your DCi © Trade Publishing Int’l Ltd 2016 regular monthly copy. 1 Grain and soya trade outlook uneven ver the past twelve months, signs pointed to Although this forecast shows a decline in iron ore imports Oweaker growth in commodity import demand in a into the EU and Japan, other importers are predicted to raise number of countries, or actual reductions. their purchases. China’s imports may increase by over 2% to Provisional figures suggest that overall growth in global 951mt this year, despite an estimated fall in crude steel seaborne dry bulk trade during 2015 was minimal or nil. production. More replacement of Chinese domestic iron ore Confidence in predicting a solid increase this year has production with imports is foreseen. Other importers as a receded. group also may see a substantial advance. One influence which may assist a return to a more healthy rate of trade expansion is strengthening growth in COAL economic activity. The latest OECD forecasts published in Estimates of coal trade prepared by the same forecaster, mid-November seem plausible. GDP in the advanced AGDIIS, are also positive, indicating resumed growth in both countries group (USA, Japan, EU and Korea) could edge steam and coking coal categories. One crucial assumption is upwards to 2.2% in 2016, from an estimated 2.0% last year. that China’s dramatic downturn in imports will not be But China’s economy is still expected to continue slowing. extended further in 2016, when a flattening of the trend will evolve. Figures, again, are based on all trade, most of which GRAIN is seaborne. A small 2% reduction in grain trade (wheat, plus corn and Global steam coal trade could see a 2% increase in 2016 other coarse grains) during the current 2015/16 crop year to 1059mt, after last year’s sharp fall. China’s imports of this seems likely. As shown by table 1, lower imports into Asia, coal type could rise by almost 2% to 160mt, accompanied by mainly caused by a downturn in China, and into the Middle larger volumes in India (up by 7% to 204mt), contrasting East area probably will not be fully offset by additional with lower volumes into Japan and Europe. Global imports elsewhere, including higher volumes in the European metallurgical coal trade in 2016 may be 1% higher at 302mt, Union. International Grains Council estimates suggest that the mainly benefiting from 7% growth in India, importing 61mt. BULK CARRIER TRADE & FLEET OUTLOOK BULK CARRIER TRADE & FLEET total could decline to 314.4mt (million tonnes). Conversely, related soya trade is still expected to increase. MINOR BULKS US Dept of Agriculture calculations show global soyabeans World seaborne fertilizer trade, comprising raw materials and and meal movements expanding at a fairly rapid 5% rate in semi-finished products, amounts to large volumes which may the 2015/16 marketing year ending September. This 8.3mt have totalled well over 140mt last year. Recent reports forecast rise to 190.4mt more than offsets the reduction in suggest that the international market may strengthen over grain trade predicted, although the time periods do not the next twelve months, amid greater import demand in a exactly match. number of Asian countries. IRON ORE BULK CARRIER FLEET An upbeat outlook published in late December by the During 2015 the world fleet of Handysize (10–40,000dwt) Australian Government Dept of Industry, Innovation and bulk carriers saw a slight increase of about 2%, resulting Science indicated that global iron ore trade in 2016 could from higher newbuilding deliveries accompanied by higher expand by 4.4%, after a slow 1.6% increase last year. The scrapping, as shown by table 2. Prospects for this size group total, which includes land movements but is mostly in the next twelve months point to a similar rate of growth, seaborne, could rise from an estimated 1,381mt in 2015 to based on very tentative assumptions about the main 1,442mt this year. influences. TABLE 1: GLOBAL WHEAT & COARSE GRAINS IMPORTS (MILLION TONNES) 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15* 2015/16* Asia (excluding Japan) 55.5 58.4 58.6 73.4 87.9 83.0 Japan 24.7 23.0 24.3 23.4 22.0 22.5 Middle East 34.9 46.0 48.4 54.0 57.1 50.8 Africa 53.3 59.0 56.3 65.4 67.4 68.8 Others 74.3 84.6 83.1 93.9 87.3 89.3 World total 242.7 271.0 270.7 310.1 321.7 314.4 source: International Grains Council, 19 November 2015 *forecast July/June crop years TABLE 2: HANDYSIZE 10-39,999 DWT BULK CARRIER FLEET (MILLION DEADWEIGHT TONNES) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015* Newbuilding deliveries 8.9 10.3 10.4 6.2 5.3 6.5 Scrapping (sales) 2.7 5.3 8.3 6.7 4.2 4.5 Losses 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 Plus/minus adjustments 0.2 -0.6 -0.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 World fleet at end of year 84.1 88.3 89.7 89.2 90.3 92.3 % change from previous year-end +4.6 +1.6 -0.6 +1.2 +2.2 JANUARY 2016 JANUARY source: Clarksons (historical data) & Bulk Shipping Analysis 2015 forecast *forecast DCi by Richard Scott, Bulk Shipping Analysis, Tel: +44 (0)12 7722 5784; Fax: +44 (0)12 7722 5784; e-mail: [email protected] 2 NEWS CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 3–5 FEBRUARY 2016 W: www.breakbulk.com 23–26 MAY Mississippi Valley 2016 World Trade & 15–18 MARCH Breakbulk Europe 2016 Transport Conference Coaltrans School of Coal Antwerp New Orleans Goa, India Belgium TRADE & COMMODITIES USA Coaltrans Conferences Ltd T: + 353 87 706 9959 Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council T: +44 (0)20 7779 8945 E: [email protected] T: +1 866 782 6882 F: +44 (0)20 7779 8946 W: www.breakbulk.com F: +1 504 588 1441 E: [email protected] 10–11 MAY E: [email protected] W: www.coaltrans.com 4th Coaltrans Poland W: www.mvttc.com 4–7 APRIL Krakow 2–4 MARCH Breakbulk Africa 2016 Poland 15th Coaltrans India Johannesburg Coaltrans Conferences Ltd Goa South Africa T: +44 (0)20 7779 8945 India T: +27 83 710 9788 F: +44 (0)20 7779 8946 Coaltrans Conferences Ltd E: [email protected] E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)20 7779 8945 W: www.breakbulk.com W: www.coaltrans.com F: +44 (0)20 7779 8946 14–15 APRIL 29–31 MAY E: [email protected] Coaltrans China 2016 22nd Coaltrans Asia W: www.coaltrans.com Beijing Bali 14–17 MARCH China Indonesia Breakbulk China 2016 Coaltrans Conferences Ltd Coaltrans Conferences Ltd Shanghai T: +44 (0)20 7779 8945 T: +44 (0)20 7779 8945 China F: +44 (0)20 7779 8946 F: +44 (0)20 7779 8946 T: +852 2 132 9698 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.coaltrans.com W: www.coaltrans.com How to secure your coal supply NEWS Whether the coal market is booming or softening, coal contracts underpin much of the world’s supply of electricity, and long-term coal agreements are not going away.
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