Ancora in crescita in agosto il traffico container nel Pacifico

Nello scorso agosto il traffico container transpacifico Asia-America è ammontato a 846.817 teu, con un incremento del 24,3% rispetto all'agosto 2001. Il traffico nella relazione westbound si è invece attestato a 281.777 teu, con un aumento dell'8,8% sull'agosto dello scorso anno. I dati relativi allo scorso luglio - diffusi oggi dalla giapponese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines - mostrano inoltre incrementi rispetto al mese precedente dell'11,5% per la relazione eastbound e del 10,4% per quella westbound.

Nei primi nove mesi di quest'anno il traffico transpacifico eastbound è stato di 5.523.783 teu, con una crescita del 19,5% rispetto allo stesso periodo del 2001, e quello westbound di 2.244.196 teu (+5,4%). Asia/US Montly Container Cargo Movements (in TEU)

	E/B (from Asia to US)					W/B (from US to Asia)
	2000	2001	growth	2002	growth	2000	2001	growth	2002	growth
Jan	513,722	573,028	11.5%	565,230	-1.4%	254,104	265,044	4.3%	244,908	-7.6%
Feb	504,055	458,957	-8.9%	601,374	31.0%	263,154	264,869	0.7%	272,793	3.0%
Mar	510,205	563,223	10.4%	570,084	1.2%	281,963	297,893	5.6%	301,367	1.2%
Apr	550,959	570,459	3.5%	707,206	24.0%	258,986	267,157	3.2%	299,105	12.0%
May	594,316	562,857	-5.3%	709,877	26.1%	274,258	270,977	-1.2%	308,597	13.9%
Jun	599,695	595,710	-0.7%	763,896	28.2%	262,687	256,036	-2.5%	280,487	9.5%
Jul	645,185	616,628	-4.4%	759,299	23.1%	250,964	249,203	-0.7%	255,162	2.4%
Aug	669,071	681,049	1.8%	846,817	24.3%	270,816	258,949	-4.4%	281,777	8.8%
Sep	642,750	686,051	6.7%			258,812	244,457	-5.5%
Oct	690,698	684,081	-1.0%			288,500	284,047	-1.5%
Nov	579,405	565,290	-2.4%			275,299	278,580	1.2%
Dec	533,917	559,040	4.7%			270,373	262.100	-3.1%
YTD	4,587,206	4,621,911	0.86%	5,523,783	19.5%	2,116,932	2,130,129	0.6%	2,244,196	5.4%
Jan/Mar	1,527,982	1,595,208	4.4%	1,736,688	8.9%	799,221	827,806	3.6%	819,067	-1.1%
Apr/Jun	1,744,969	1,729,026	-09%	2,180,979	26.1%	795,931	794,171	-0.2%	888,189	11.8%
Jul/Sep	1,957,005	1,983,729	1.4%			780,592	752,609	-3.6%
Oct/Dec	1,804,019	1,808,411	0.2%			834,171	824,727	-1.1%
Jan/Dec	7,033,975	7,116,374	1.2%	-	-	3,209,915	3,199,313	-0.3%	-	-

(Source: Shipping Research / Mitsui O.S.K. Lines)Containerships New Orders

As of Oct. 11, 2002

		Over 5,000 TEU		4,000-4,999 TEU		3,000-3,999 TEU		2,000-2,999 TEU		1,000-1,999 TEU		Total
		No.	TEU	No.	TEU	No.	TEU	No.	TEU	No.	TEU	No.	TEU
1995	1Q	0	0	0	0	2	7,000	15	37,768	17	24,144	34	68,912
	2Q	3	15,046	0	0	0	0	6	13,100	24	30,571	33	58,717
	3Q	0	0	2	8,974	0	0	6	14,200	16	20,176	24	43,350
	4Q	3	16,500	28	125,145	11	38,600	12	30,582	17	25,832	71	236,659
	Total	6	31,546	30	134,119	13	45,600	39	95,650	74	100,723	162	407,638
1996	1Q	5	28,500	7	33,071	11	41,406	8	17,995	9	10,484	40	131,450
	2Q	2	13,348	1	4,850	4	14,600	43	101,605	17	26,088	67	160,491
	3Q	0	0	4	16,924	0	0	16	40,200	37	50,518	57	107,642
	4Q	10	56,116	0	0	3	11,080	10	21,978	18	21,822	41	110,996
	Total	17	97,964	12	54,845	18	67,080	77	181,778	81	108.912	205	510,579
1997	1Q	3	15,964	0	0	2	6,000	11	29,750	21	31,938	37	83,652
	2Q	0	0	0	0	2	7,000	0	0	6	8,666	8	15,666
	3Q	10	50,000	3	13,200	0	0	3	6,998	5	6,068	21	76,266
	4Q	0	0	0	0	2	7,900	4	9,400	6	9,728	12	27,028
	Total	13	65,964	3	13,200	6	20,900	18	46,148	38	56,400	78	202,612
1998	1Q	10	54,320	0	0	0	0	5	11,484	13	18,350	28	84,154
	2Q	20	108,500	8	37,600	3	11,674	6	13,200	14	22,420	51	193,394
	3Q	6	33,200	3	14,400	4	13,200	2	4,400	4	6,400	19	71,600
	4Q	0	0	0	0	3	11,850	4	8,800	2	3,496	9	24,146
	Total	36	196,020	11	52,000	10	36,724	17	37,884	33	50,666	107	373,294
1999	1Q	9	51,370	0	0	9	30,000	2	4,884	5	5,100	25	91,354
	2Q	18	111,772	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	8,960	26	120,732
	3Q	25	142,200	0	0	6	23,174	9	21,900	9	12,314	49	199,588
	4Q	29	169,620	13	52,280	0	0	14	33,230	9	11,240	65	266,370
	Total	81	474,962	13	52,280	15	53,174	25	60,014	31	37,614	165	678,044
2000	1Q	28	174,050	9	36,900	0	0	16	40,326	6	10,432	59	261,708
	2Q	23	136,702	16	72,050	3	10,524	12	29,808	9	10,704	63	259,788
	3Q	7	44,600	10	43,920	4	14,000	16	38,100	12	15,060	49	155,680
	4Q	8	54,200	23	96,524	5	16,000	13	32,300	8	9,236	57	208,260
	Total	66	409,552	58	249,394	12	40,524	57	140,534	35	45,432	228	885,436
2001	1Q	9	67,280	17	73,884	3	10,800	17	43,196	16	19,384	62	214,544
	2Q	12	80,998	6	30,350	11	35,900	5	13,188	7	11,900	41	172,336
	3Q	1	6,408	0	0	6	19,756	6	13,980	21	28,456	34	68,600
	4Q	10	67,000	3	13,900	0	0	4	8,800	0	0	17	89,700
	Total	32	221,686	26	118,134	20	66,456	32	79,164	44	59,740	154	545,180
2002	1Q	0	0	0	0	2	7,600	0	0	0	0	2	7,600
	2Q	1	6,408	8	38,000	2	6,400	6	15,390	1	1,100	18	67,298
	3Q	9	51,768	6	117,202	0	0	0	0	4	6,876	19	175,846
	Oct	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	10	58,176	14	155,202	4	14,000	6	15,390	5	7,976	39	250,744

Note : Containerships over 1,000 TEU includes unconfirmed orders.
Source: Clarkson Research Studies "Shipping Intelligence Weekly", "Container Intelligence Monthly" DEMOLITION ACTIVITY
(Source: MOL)
(Thousand Dwt)

Year, Month		Bulk Carriers	Tankers
2001	1	449	108
	2	79	545
	3	452	1,086
	4	587	691
	5	563	1,559
	6	505	1,535
	7	363	902
	8	461	1,245
	9	198	841
	10	402	1,286
	11	838	3,883
	12	249	1,486
TOTAL		5,146	15,167
2002	1	603	2,314
	2	516	3,155
	3	344	684
	4	310	1,749
	5	226	3,629
	6	566	405
	7	359	495
	8	737	1,202
	9
	10
	11
	12
TOTAL		3,661	13,633

Source: The Drewry Monthly