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Home » Shipping Rates for Chemicals Expected to Face Pressure This Year

Shipping Rates for Chemicals Expected to Face Pressure This Year

February 12, 2016
Drewry

More and more larger vessels were delivered during 2015; a total of 193 ships, aggregating 7.4 million dwt with an average vessel size of 38,390 dwt hit the water during the year. About 206 ships totaling 3.72 million dwt and averaging 18,058 dwt were removed from the fleet. The stainless steel orderbook is at 37 percent of the number of ships and 41 percent of the existing deadweight. Although some of the older stainless/coated ships will likely be scrapped over the next year or two, the fully stainless fleet is very young and the number of deletions will be very small in relation to deliveries.

“Shipyards still have the capacity to build more chemical tankers and we expect many ships to be ordered this year for delivery in 2017 and beyond. None of this leaves us optimistic about the future of the chemical tanker industry and our outlook for this segment is quite bleak,” said Drewry’s lead analyst for chemical shipping Hu Qing.

Looking at market fundamentals, there is a large amount of newbuildings slated to hit the market in 2016, and still many new production projects appear on hold pending a consensus opinion on the long-term trend of oil markets; the MTO (methanol to olefin) plants in China are examples. The lifting of sanctions on Iran brought cheer to the country’s petrochemical industry and it is expected that the volume of trade from Iran to Europe and the Far East will increase.

El Nino brought dry weather across South-East Asia, affecting the palm oil producing countries of Malaysia and Indonesia by lowering yields and output. With prolonged dry weather caused by the August 2015 drought and the effects of El Nino, production is likely to decline substantially in 2016.

“We expect spot activity out of the Middle East and U.S. Gulf to increase significantly in 2016, but freight rates for both contracts of affreightment and spot cargoes will remain under pressure throughout the year, as there are some new operators looking to break into the long-haul trade routes,” said Qing.

Source: Drewry

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