Williams (Braemar): the trend of the orders of portacontainer is correlated to that of the price of the bunker



In this moment of acute crises of economies world-wide, that it has a strong impact negative also on the marine transport of line to the taken ones with a pressure on the hires that often does not allow not even not to reach the cover of the operating costs, many are wondering because some of the main world-wide shipowning companies that operate in this field continue to order to the ship yards the construction of portacontainer of dimension and always greater abilities.

An answer to the question has formulated it the British society of shipbroking Braemar Seascope, second which the order of more and more large portacontenitori ships closely is correlated with the course of the price of the fuel.

Taking part last week to Istanbul to the Mediterranean Freight Conference of "Containerisation International", research the manager of Braemar Seascope, Mark Williams, it has explained that this connection is evidenced particularly in a trend that is in existence from at least five years. The operators of the field - he has asserted - cannot control the hires, especially in a competitive market as that gushed by the abolition of the conference, but the unitary costs of the marine transport of every single container from 20 can instead control ' (teu) through economies of scale. The order of portacontainer more and more large - it has concluded Williams - is the directed consequence of this modality of management of the costs.

Williams has evidenced the strong correlation between the price of the bunker, that she constitutes the greater unitary costs for every marine shipment of container teu, and the medium dimension of the portacontainer ordered in the past decade.

The intensity of this tie - it has observed Williams - is confirmed by the decrease of the price of the combustible bunker in 2009 and by the medium ability in teu to the ships ordered in the course of that year, even if naturally - it has specified - the portacontainer ordered in the 2009 they are taken in delivery in 2012 or successively, when the price of the bunker more is elevated.

If the price of the fuel will continue to grow - it has found the manager of Braemar - is arrived to a moment in which the naval planners will have difficulty to construct ships still larger. The Malaccamax class - it has observed - seems to be the maximum dimension of the suitable ships to the traffics between Asia and Europe and the harbour operators will have difficulty to adapt their terminals ulteriorly.

The new echo-projects of portacontainer - according to Williams - will become therefore more and more important for the strategies of control of the costs of the shipowning companies that operate line services.