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in co-operation with Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik e. V. HANSA Supplement February 2016 SHIPS 2015 Made in Germany Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Sein Einsatz ist unbezahlbar. Deshalb braucht er Ihre Spende. www.seenotretter.de Die Seenotretter_DGzRS_210x297_Version1_4c.indd 1 24.07.14 15:38 Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Ships made in Germany Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Ships made in Sein Einsatz ist Germany unbezahlbar. Photo: Ferus Smit Deshalb braucht er Ihre Spende. Photo: Lürssen www.seenotretter.de Photo: Fassmer CONTENTS VSM: Great success in healthy niches . 4 Inconsistency in world shipbuilding . 5 German Yards: Successful year in tough markets . 8 »Ship of the Year« from Nordic Yards . 11 »Murman«: Rescue twins for the Arctic . 12 »Russia continues to be a strategic market«, Interview with Vitaly Yusufov, owner of the shipyard group Nordic Yards . 15 German Dry Docks: »Good experience with cooperation« . 17 Deliveries and contracts of German shipyards in 2015 . 18 Supplement to HANSA International Maritime Journal 02/2016 Chief Editor: Krischan Förster | Executive Editor: Michael Meyer | Editors: Thomas Wägener | Felix Selzer Schiffahrts-Verlag »Hansa« GmbH & Co. KG | Ballindamm 17 | 20095 Hamburg, Germany [email protected] | Phone +49 (0)40-70 70 80-02 | Fax +49 (0)40-70 70 80-214 HANSA International Maritime Journal – 02 | 2016 – Ships made in Germany 3 Die Seenotretter_DGzRS_210x297_Version1_4c.indd 1 24.07.14 15:38 Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Ships made in Germany Great success in healthy niches The combination of the specialization and cooperation of the German ship building industry is an important factor for the success of it . Also important are the highly skilled people and the experience of building today’s hightech products . By Reinhard Lüken he maritime industry is the key to One of the world’s most advanced and Treap the vast benefits from utilizing most highly specialized rescue vessels – the opportunities at sea. Complex tech- this year’s »Ship of the Year«, »Murman« nology is always required – be it the use of – is another excellent example. This ship oceans and seas as simple traffic routes or has already been awarded the Russian economic areas e.g. for energy production State Prize for achievements in the field or tourism. New technologies and appli- of transport and transport infrastruc- cations at sea have the potential to con- ture in the category »best innovative stantly create new markets and constitute Photo: VSM solution«. It qualifies for the ice class ice- a reliable driver of growth. breaker 6 like its sister »Beringov Proliv«. The German shipbuilding & oceans »Murman« will be employed for rescue technology industry offers excellent missions and patrols on the Northeast conditions in these fields as it has high- Passage around Murmansk. The vessel’s ly specialized experts along the entire high-tech equipment enables the crew to supply chain at its disposal like no oth- perform search and rescue missions as er country. well emergency towage even under ex- In Germany’s maritime industry, with Reinhard Lüken, General Manager of the treme weather conditions. An on-board many small and medium-sized enter- German Shipbuilding and Ocean hospital allows the medical treatment of Industries Association (VSM) prises, success is based on the combina- rescued people. Moreover, both ships are tion of specialization and cooperation equipped with technology for seabed re- which results in great technical expertise, rines powered by fuel cells and elaborate search and investigation of damaged ob- high-quality standards, continuous in- cable ships and offshore converter plat- jects at depths of up to 1,000 m. novation efforts, and high-quality prod- forms were successfully delivered. These »Murman« combines German quality ucts. Excellent project management skills, are just a few examples of today’s high- and leading-edge technologies and shows which ensure timely and technically per- tech product portfolio by the German that the German companies offer high- fect final delivery, are part of the core com- shipbuilding & marine technology indus- class innovative products at competitive petencies as much as the continuous adap- try, which has successfully established in prices and coordinate international pro- tation of the product portfolio to changing healthy niches in the global market. jects successfully. customer requirements. A careful treatment of the marine en- vironment – in ecologically ever more Export Initiative GeMaX founded Different ship types sensitive areas such as the Arctic and the Whereas German engineering has a strong In recent years, eco-friendly cruise vessels, Northern Sea Route – is given high priority international reputation, its marketing and the hitherto largest offshore seismic vessel because such a record of success can only sales approach is sometimes less-nown. for the exploration of oil and gas, the long- be achieved and secured in the long term With the German Maritime Export Initi- est private mega yacht and the most mod- with innovative, efficient and environmen- ative, GeMaX, maritime producers from ern research vessel in the world, subma- tally friendly technology. Germany have teamed up to jointly pres- ent themselves to new customers around the world. The initiative is hosted by VSM. As a unique approach, GeMaX combines Exquisite Maritime Marketing manufactures and financial institutions in order to offer equipment based finance. and Photography GeMaX supports costumers in their sourc- ing activities in Germany. By cooperating with the well-known shipping department of KfW IPEX-Bank, Global customers can access equipment-based finance, which is leveraged corresponding to the procure- ment volume from German manufac- turers. That way, GeMaX brings together MMS Marine Marketing Service | YPS Yacht Photo Service | Peter Neumann excellent technology and new sources of fi- http//www.ypscollection.de | +49 40 389 51 43 nance. M More information: www gemax. .de 4 HANSA International Maritime Journal – 02 | 2016 – Ships made in Germany Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Ships made in Germany Schiffstechnik | Ship Technology Inconsistency in world shipbuilding The international shipbuilding market is more stable again . The decline between 2012 and 2014 could be stopped . Mainly big container vessels have been ordered and the sizes of nearly all ship types rose he global economic recovery has not gained momentum, yet. Korea amounted to 10% of all orders, in Japan it was 41% and in TAfter further negative adjustments of its forecasts the IMF esti- China 38% of the shipyards’ order volume was domestic orders. mates just 3.1% growth rate for the global economy in 2015. World These figures visualize that the shipbuilding companies of these trade is lacking drive. The forecasts were also corrected for the countries benefit from state subsidies for the shipping companies worse, so that the estimation in late 2015 is a growth rate of 3.2%. to a large extent. By contrast, orders by German shipowners were These low growth rates in the global economy therefore do not nearly 100% awarded to foreign shipyards. qualify for new impetus in investment behaviour in the shipping When considering new orders by type of vessel very different industry. Favourable financing conditions with constantly low in- trends could be traced. Container vessels enjoyed the biggest de- terest rates and low bunker prices did little to change this situa- mand for the first three quarters in 2015, reaching a sharply in- tion. On the other hand, the decrease in oil prices, overcapacity in creasing market share which rose from 13% in 2014 to 32% CGT individual market segments of the world merchant fleet, and high market share (9.9 mill. CGT, 233 orders). The »Super-Post-Pana- order backlogs had a negative impact on the propensity to invest. max« units took the lead and thus vessels of 10,000 and 21,000 TEU The overcapacity problem further depresses freight rates. totalled 117 orders and 7.9 mill. CGT (80% of the CGT volume of all container ships). The share of crude oil tankers significant- Incoming orders ly increased with 168 new orders (5.5 mill. CGT). These vessels With 1,564 orders, the decline augmented annualized (-25% by constituted the second largest market segment with approx. 18%. number) and turned out to be more profound than after CGT val- RoRo cargo ship orders also developed well while the share in- ues (-9% or 31.1 mill. CGT), as the trend to build ever larger ships creased to 6%. continues particularly with container ships. In contrast to growth segments mentioned some significant Despite the hitherto existing downward trend, new orders in- drops in demand were recorded for other ship types. Although creased in the third quarter disproportionately compared with bulk orders totalled 263 newbuilding contracts (4.5 mill. CGT) and the first half of the year. As a background it may be suggested a CGT share of almost 15% of incoming orders and thus continues that many shipowners have pre-drawn orders to avoid new stricter to be an important market segment, compared with the previous emission limits (Tier-III regulations for NOx) as of 1 January 2016. year (33%), the bulk share, however, has more than halved. Causes Since the increases were largely due to stronger domestic contract may be found in the commodity markets which show reduced need awarded in China and Korea, it is also to be assumed that these and in overcapacity in the fleet. As for offshore vehicles, the indus- were supported by government incentives as countermeasures to try also faced slumps in demand. Since 2012, the respective CGT the slump in demand. market share fell from 16% to only 4% for the first three quarters China’s CGT market share fell for the first three quarters in in 2015. In the current period 173 new orders (1.3 mill. CGT) were 2015: from almost 40% in recent years to some 30% now (9.3 mill.