Behrendt (VDR): the German shipowners withstand well to the crisis



The German shipowners that rent ships are adapting with happen to the change of the market determined from the economic crisis. Michael Behrendt has said, president of Verband Deutscher Reeder (VDR), association of shipowners Germanic, observing that "with the exception of how much happens in other nations, up to now here in Germany failures of entire societies of navigation have not happened". Evidencing the importance that the ships remain of property and German management also after the crisis, Behrendt has emphasized that "the German shipowners continue to being leader of the market when is spoken about competence in ship management".

Making the point on the state of the section, Behrendt has found that in the course of 2013 the tendency to initiatives of cooperation in the management and the financing of the ships is continued in Germany, in particular between the average and small companies dimensions. The VDR president however has confirmed that the excess of total offer of transport ability, above all in the segment of the container vessels of the ability at least 5,000 teu, and the progressive reduction of the quota the field of the shipping in the pocketbooks of the financial institutions has had a remarkable impact on the German companies of navigation. Moreover, in many cases, the level of the hires continuous to inadequate being. For the ships in exercise that currently I am under great pressure - he has confirmed - the shipowners that they rent to them are working with banks in order to find solutions to the aim to earn time in order to arrive at the moment of the resumption of the markets. In the segment of the marine transport of line, moreover, the hires stretch to being beneath of the level last year and the more rigorous norms for the safeguard of the atmosphere and the climate determine an increase of the costs to cargo are of the shipowners who take care of charterings that of those which line services operate.

Behrendt has evidenced also the necessity that in Germany is proceeded to the modernization of the administration of the State of flag, initiative - it has remembered - that undersigned yesterday to Berlin from cristianodemocratici, social democrats and cristianosociali is previewed by the same agreement of coalition, Great Coalition that today will receive the green light from the Parliament. "Instead of a series of points of contact and long decisional processes - it has found the president of the German shipowners - we need an only interlocutor. An effective administration of the State of flag - it has concluded - is of vital importance for a Germany center of marine activities".