Leise Hoffnungssignale für Schwergut- und Projekt-Carrier

摘要

Die Richtung stimmt - jedenfalls bei Ladungsmengen und Buchungsanfragen. Nach dem schweren Einbruch von 2009/10 nimmt die Aktivität in den Schwergut- und Projektverkehren seit 2011 wieder merklich zu, wie Experten aus Schifffahrt und Logistik kürzlich auf der Fachmesse Breakbulk Europe in Antwerpen berichteten. Einer der wohl wichtigsten Treiber der Entwicklung: die immer noch recht hohen Weltmarktpreise für Öl, Gas und andere Bodenschätze, für deren Erschließung massiv in neue Anlagen und Maschinen investiert werden muss.%Liftings of industrial breakbulk and project cargoes have been trending up again since 2011, with current enquiry and logistics tendering activity by engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms pointing to a steady increase over the coming years. However, shipping activity is not yet sufficient to whip up freight rates and time charter equivalent earnings for multipurpose heavy lift vessels. Rates have, by and large, been moving sideways since they nosedived in 2009. The global head of projects at Swiss forwarding group Panalpina said at the Breakbulk Europe conference in Antwerp at the end of last May that he expects 2014 to be start of the next project shipping boom.rnMeanwhile shipowners and operators are facing more stringent quality and compliance requirements from charterers Ishippers. Some corruption and bribery scandals involving freight forwarders and logistics agents, that resulted in massive penalties also for the project shippers that commissioned them, have alerted the industry. Representatives from Caterpillar and Air Products stressed that they expect compliance programmes to be put in place by the carriers they book with.