Decline in Cargo Turnover at Stade Port: Aftermaths of the Energy Crisis

 

The port of Stade (Lower Saxony) witnessed a decline in cargo turnover last year, as per the recently released annual report.

In 2022, the port handled approximately 5.1 million tons of goods. Overall drop of -13% for the year-on-year comparison. Among them: solid bulk cargoes -4%, chemical products -27%.

The decline has been attributed to the energy crisis, which coincided with rising natural gas costs, leading to a substantial reduction in production by the energy-dependent sectors of industry and thus on the maritime trade in Lower Saxony (overall, -6% decrease in turnover across all its seaports, with the Stade port making it below the average decline for the region).

For furhter details see the reporting site https://www.seaports.de/

Cellular shipping - the shot snapped

As of today, March 18, 2013 Alphaliner estimates the world's Liner Shipping to amount to 5,925 ships active on liner trades or 16,943,189 TEU; including 4,944 fully cellular ships or 16,474,446 TEU.

Their Top 100 list of the carriers is based on the sheer TEU power of a liner company. The Top 30 is shown as following:

Source: www.alphaliner.com

The entire Top 100 rating is accessible here.

Переоцененность бренда или недооценка эффективности?

Сообщает Центр автомобильных исследований (CAR) Университета Дуйсбурга-Эссена. Показатели оперативной прибыли производителей автомобилей (до уплаты налогов и сборов на каждый проданный автомобиль):

Porsche 356

Porsche +16 826 EUR
BMW +4 325 EUR
Audi +4 242 EUR
Daimler +3 621 EUR
Chrysler +1 436 EUR
Hyundai +1 386 EUR
Volkswagen +916 EUR
Toyota +845 EUR
Renault +65 EUR
PSA (Peugeot-Citroёn) -789 EUR
Opel -939 EUR

The Merchant Fleet: A Facilitator of World Trade

This report is a part of the WEF Global Enabling Trade Report 2012. It explores how the globalization impacts trade and merchant fleet.

Author: Hans Oust Heiberg, DNB Bank ASA





More about GETR 2012





Full report can be downloaded at WEF web-site.

Container service KPI's - Reliability

One of the most important KPI's in a container service is reliability, i.e. probability of the event that delivery is done on time. The recent correction of the 2-year long slump in the reliability could be correlated with the flatting of the tariff rate (figure below).

Source: http://www.ifw-net.com/

The factor to effect is the severe competition which drives the container lines to match their clients' need for the parcel supply reliability. As per Drewry's, the reliability champions among container carriers - Hanjin and Maersk, have achieved unprecedented 90%+ benchmark in the reliability of their services against the industry average level of 69%. This blog's post on Maersk Daily may give an idea of the scale of the efforts and investment required to accomplish the feat.

There are some insights and more info on the topic at the IFW news.

A.O. Chepok

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Ukrainian PSC (Black Sea MOU) inspections database

From now on visitors of Maritime Routes can browse through the list of the latest inspections carried out by the Black Sea MOU PSC officers in the Ukrainian ports (including all details of deficiencies and detentions). List is accessible directly from @OdessaBay page.


Quote from Wikipedia on PSC:

Port State Control (PSC) is the inspection of foreign ships in other national ports by PSC officers (inspectors) for the purpose of verifying that the competency of the master and officers on board, the condition of a ship and its equipment comply with the requirements of international conventions (e.g. SOLAS, MARPOL, STCW, etc.) and that the vessel is manned and operated in compliance with applicable international law.

PSC regions chart
Source: Wikipedia

Paris MOU (blue), Tokyo MOU (red), Indian Ocean MOU (green), Mediterranean MOU (dark green), Acuerdo Latino (yellow), Caribbean MOU (olive), Abuja MOU (dark red), Black Sea MOU (cyan) and Riyadh MOU (navy).

Ukrainian state ports in 1Q2011 - 1Q2010

As the benchmark for the volumes handled serve the results in the 1st quarter 2010 of top 5 EU ports:

TOP 5 EU Ports	I. Volumes, thsd mt
	Rank I	I/2010
Rotterdam (NL)	EU1	99 600
Antwerp (BE)	EU2	37 600
Hamburg (DE)	EU3	24 600
Marseille (FR)	EU4	20 800
Amsterdam (NL)	EU5	17 800
source - http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
Here you are the Ukrainian data:
Ukrainian State Ports	I. Volumes, thsd mt
	Rank I	I/2011	I/2010	Change %
Odessa	1	6 804,3	6 899,7	-1,4%
Yuzhny	2	5 278,4	4 723,2	+11,8%
Ilichevsk	3	3 761,7	4 383,0	-14,2%
Mariupol	4	2 946,0	2 696,0	+9,3%
Nikolayev	5	1 903,2	1 592,9	+19,5%
Izmail	6	1 483,6	1 528,7	-3,0%
Kerch	7	1 427,3	1 231,9	+15,9%
Theodosia	8	903,1	819,6	+10,2%
Oktyabrsk	9	788,0	815,1	-3,3%
Berdyansk	10	522,7	239,0	+118,7%
Kherson	11	511,2	614,3	-16,8%
Reni	12	456,7	387,3	+17,9%
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky	13	261,0	220,4	+18,4%
Evpatoria	14	257,7	338,9	-24,0%
Sevastopol	15	102,8	67,3	+52,7%
Skadovsk	16	70,9	79,2	-10,5%
Yalta	17	15,1	21,6	-30,1%
Ust-Dunaisk	18	3,0	0,0	-
Total	-	27 496,7	26 658,1	+3,1%
source - http://tbu.com.ua/top/ilichevskii_mtp_isportil_pokazateli_otrasli.html
Ukrainian State Ports	II. Income, mln USD
	Rank II	I/2011	I/2010	Change %
Odessa	2	55,912	55,481	+0,8%
Yuzhny	1	62,812	70,378	-10,7%
Ilichevsk	4	48,382	60,284	-19,7%
Mariupol	3	49,740	40,148	+23,9%
Nikolayev	8	11,545	11,535	+0,1%
Izmail	6	13,982	13,922	+0,4%
Kerch	5	14,073	13,978	+0,7%
Theodosia	12	6,422	6,720	-4,4%
Oktyabrsk	7	12,771	13,021	-1,9%
Berdyansk	9	7,151	5,049	+41,6%
Kherson	10	7,011	8,987	-22,0%
Reni	13	3,932	3,274	+20,1%
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky	11	6,433	5,730	+12,3%
Evpatoria	15	0,670	0,804	-16,6%
Sevastopol	14	3,079	2,679	+15,0%
Skadovsk	16	0,476	0,450	+5,8%
Yalta	17	0,248	0,247	+0,6%
Ust-Dunaisk	18	0,189	0,119	+59,0%
Total	-	304,829	312,806	-2,6%
source - http://tbu.com.ua/top/ilichevskii_mtp_isportil_pokazateli_otrasli.html
Ukrainian State Ports	III. Expenditures, mln USD
	Rank III	I/2011	I/2010	Change %
Odessa	4	41,852	42,794	-2,2%
Yuzhny	1	49,648	55,804	-11,0%
Ilichevsk	2	43,420	52,282	-16,9%
Mariupol	3	42,374	31,469	+34,7%
Nikolayev	8	9,387	9,507	-1,3%
Izmail	5	13,545	13,498	+0,4%
Kerch	6	13,337	13,502	-1,2%
Theodosia	12	5,925	5,941	-0,3%
Oktyabrsk	7	10,964	9,771	+12,2%
Berdyansk	10	6,826	6,267	+8,9%
Kherson	9	6,902	8,470	-18,5%
Reni	13	4,237	3,877	+9,3%
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky	11	6,246	5,184	+20,5%
Evpatoria	16	0,652	0,810	-19,5%
Sevastopol	14	3,017	2,664	+13,2%
Skadovsk	17	0,500	0,455	+9,8%
Yalta	15	0,901	0,703	+28,1%
Ust-Dunaisk	18	0,225	0,171	+31,1%
Total	-	259,960	263,171	-1,2%
source - http://tbu.com.ua/top/ilichevskii_mtp_isportil_pokazateli_otrasli.html
Ukrainian State Ports	IV. Net Gain, mln USD
	Rank IV	I/2011	I/2010	Change %
Odessa	1	14,060	12,686	+10,8%
Yuzhny	2	13,164	14,573	+9,7%
Ilichevsk	4	4,962	8,002	+38,0%
Mariupol	3	7,365	8,680	+15,1%
Nikolayev	5	2,158	2,027	+6,5%
Izmail	9	0,437	0,424	+2,9%
Kerch	7	0,737	0,476	+54,7%
Theodosia	8	0,497	0,780	+36,2%
Oktyabrsk	6	1,806	3,250	+44,4%
Berdyansk	10	0,324	-1,218	+126,6%
Kherson	12	0,109	0,517	+78,9%
Reni	18	-0,305	-0,603	+49,4%
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky	11	0,187	0,546	+65,8%
Evpatoria	14	0,018	-0,006	+429,5%
Sevastopol	13	0,062	0,014	+341,1%
Skadovsk	15	-0,023	-0,005	+376,9%
Yalta	17	-0,652	-0,456	+43,0%
Ust-Dunaisk	16	-0,036	-0,053	+31,4%
Total	-	44,869	49,635	-9,6%
source - http://tbu.com.ua/top/ilichevskii_mtp_isportil_pokazateli_otrasli.html
Ukrainian State Ports	V. Net Gain USD/mt
	Rank V	I/2011	I/2010	Change %
Odessa	1	2,07	1,84	+12,4%
Yuzhny	2	2,49	3,09	-19,2%
Ilichevsk	4	1,32	1,83	-27,7%
Mariupol	3	2,50	3,22	-22,3%
Nikolayev	5	1,13	1,27	-10,9%
Izmail	9	0,29	0,28	+6,1%
Kerch	7	0,52	0,39	+33,6%
Theodosia	8	0,55	0,95	-42,1%
Oktyabrsk	6	2,29	3,99	-42,5%
Berdyansk	10	0,62	-5,10	-112,2%
Kherson	12	0,21	0,84	-74,6%
Reni	18	-0,67	-1,56	-57,1%
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky	11	0,72	2,48	-71,1%
Evpatoria	14	0,07	-0,02	-533,4%
Sevastopol	13	0,60	0,21	+188,8%
Skadovsk	15	-0,33	-0,06	-
Yalta	17	-43,20	-21,12	-
Ust-Dunaisk	16	-12,10	-	-
Total	-	-40,906	-7,481	+446,8%
source - http://alexeychepok.blogspot.com/
Ukrainian State Ports	VI. Rate of Return, mln USD
	Rank VI	I/2011	I/2010	Change %
Odessa	1	33,6%	29,6%	+13,3%
Yuzhny	2	26,5%	26,1%	+1,5%
Ilichevsk	6	11,4%	15,3%	-25,3%
Mariupol	4	17,4%	27,6%	-37,0%
Nikolayev	3	23,0%	21,3%	+7,8%
Izmail	10	3,2%	3,1%	+2,6%
Kerch	8	5,5%	3,5%	+56,7%
Theodosia	7	8,4%	13,1%	-36,1%
Oktyabrsk	5	16,5%	33,3%	-50,5%
Berdyansk	9	4,7%	-19,4%	-124,4%
Kherson	14	1,6%	6,1%	-74,1%
Reni	16	-7,2%	-15,6%	-53,7%
Belgorod-Dnestrovsky	11	3,0%	10,5%	-71,6%
Evpatoria	12	2,8%	-0,7%	-509,1%
Sevastopol	13	2,1%	0,5%	+289,5%
Skadovsk	15	-4,7%	-1,1%	+334,4%
Yalta	18	-72,4%	-64,9%	+11,6%
Ust-Dunaisk	17	-16,1%	-30,8%	-47,7%
Total	-	17,3%	18,9%	-8,5%
source - http://alexeychepok.blogspot.com/