Characteristics of Bulk Carriers with Respect to the Developing Export Coal Terminals on the Far East of Russia

摘要

Dry bulk carriers are usually used for the transportation of considerable volumes of homogenous cargo: chemical products (phosphates, fertilizers), cement, iron ore, coal, agro products (grain, beans). Worldwide economics and dry bulk trade has been shifted to the Asian regions. In the October of 2014 was officially announced that China had become the leading economy in the world. Other countries of the region are developing rapidly. The demand on the energy resources in the developing countries is high, especially on such a conventional resource as the coal. Asian seaborne thermal coal demand is estimated 742 million tons in 2014, which will be increased to 845 million tons by 2018 (the data for the main Asian countries are shown on Fig. 1).