Bharatbook.com : Forecast development of the ocean-going self-unloading bulk carrier fleet.

Self-Unloading, Hybrid & Geared Bulk Carriers ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Self-Unloading-Hybrid-Geared-Bulk-Carriers.html ) Continuously self-unloading vessels can offer significantly lower transport costs than conventional geared and gearless bulk carriers. These depend on achieving the right combination of shipping and port economies, in order to offset higher capital costs.
Recent developments have focused on the use of “hybrid” vessels to achieve some of the benefits of self-unloaders for a lower investment cost, Such developments have widened the scope of the market, especially for short-term contracts.
Self-unloaders have found increasing employment on the American east coast, in northern Europe and East Asia. There are growing opportunities for self-unloaders in the developing world, where expansion in throughput co-exists with sparse port and terminal investment.
As well as exploring recent market trends and prospects for self-unloading and hybrid bulk carriers, this study examines the economies of self-unloading, hybrid, geared and gearless vessels in detail. Voyage and terminal costs are explored for different types and sizes of vessel and notional case studies are used to illustrate the econoniics of different trades.
A growing world fleet has boosted the opportunities for developing spot trades to add to the traditional long-term contracts for set tonnages of particular cargoes. It has also created a second-hand market.

The report covers the following topics:

• The development of the ocean-going self-unloading bulk carrier fleet.
• Recent and ongoing newbuildings and conversions.
• The growing number of “hybrids”.
• Types of self-unloading system – including top-reclaiming, gravity-based and hybrid systems.
• Analysis of the fleet by region of deployment, deadweight capacity, age of vessel, type of discharge gear, country and yard of construction or conversion.
• Self-unloading cement carriers.
• Self-unloading bulk carrier trades and operators, including profiles of their fleets, trades and regions of deployment.
• The development of the geared bulk carrier market.
• Recent and forecast freight market developments.
• Detailed comparisons of the economies of self-unloading and hybrid bulk carriers with conventional geared and gearless carriers.
• Notional case studies on the economics of particular self-unloader trades and potential trades

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