In the 2014 operating costs of the companies of the shipping they have recorded a decrease of -0,8%



Last year the recorded total operating costs from the companies of marine transport are diminished of the -0,8% regarding 2013, year in which the decrease it had been of the -0,3% on 2012. 2015 evidence the OpCost relationship, that Moore Stephens is introduced yesterday by the society of London advising, specifying that in 2014 a reduction in all the categories of expense and all the fields of the marine transport is found.

In particular, the study explains that last year the index that measure the level of the supported operating costs from the societies that operate in the section of the liquid bulk transport has shown a decrease of two points (- 1.1%), what it records the costs of the active companies in the bulk transport sand banks has recorded a decrease of a point (- 0.6%) and the index that finds the operating costs of the companies of the section of the containerized transport marine has shown a decrease of two points (- 1.2%). In 2013 in the segment of the liquid bulk an increase of two points had happened, while in the segments of the bulk sand banks and the container a decrease of two points was totaled.

In the specific one, last year a total medium decrease of the -0,1% of the costs of crew (- 0.2% in 2013 is recorded). In the Moore Stephens document it emphasizes that, for a reason or purpose of I confront, the relationship of 2008 had recorded an increase of +21% in this category of costs. In the 2014 in the field of the ships tanker bending of the costs of the crew it has been of -0,4% (+1.8% in 2013) and is I yield of an increment of +1.6% of the costs in the segment of the Suezmax ships, of an increase of +0.2% in that of the Handysize and of a decrease in all the other types of ship. In the field of the ships portarinfuse the costs of the crew have remained altogether unchanged (+0,5 in 2013), with increments of +2.3% and +0.5% respective in the segments of the ships Handymax and Handysize and decreases of the -2,0% and the -0,5% in the segments of the Capesize and the Panamax. Also in the field of portacontainer the costs of the crew they have totally remained unchanged (so also in 2013), with an increase of +2.5% of the costs in the segment of the ships of smaller cargo abilities (1.000-2.000 teu) that it is counterbalanced by the decrease of the -1,4% in the segment of the portacontenitori of greater ability (2.000-6.000 teu).

Between the other items of expenditure, in the 2014 costs for the materials of consumption and the lubricants they are diminished of -2,4% (- 1.9% in 2013), those of repair and maintenance they are dropped of the -0,6% (- 0.4% in 2013) and the assurance costs are diminished of -0,4% (- 0.3% in 2013).

"This - Richard Greiner has commented, partner of Moore Stephens - is the third consecutive year of reduction on a yearly basis of the total operating costs. This - it has found - reaches as a surprise almost and is in contrast with the forecasts precedence". In the previsional relationship of the October the 2014, in fact, English society had estimated that it is in the 2014 that in the 2015 would have happened an increase of +2.5% of the total of the operating costs. "Evidently - it has observed Greiner - the shipping it is making attention to cent, but it can also be that the more competitive prices of the assets and the services have had a role in the decrease of the costs. Besides this, as the impact of the variations of the exchange rates always happens - it has specified - cannot be easy determined".

"A third consecutive decrease anniversary of the operating costs - it has continued Greiner - must already constitute a good news for a field in serious financial difficulties and that it must face ulterior challenges. However a wider picture supplies a panoramic one than the operating costs remarkablly are increased during the last few years. OpCost has reached now its fifteenth year of publication. At the end of the 2001 - Greiner has remembered - average cost of every day exercise for a rinfusiera Panamax it was of 3.565 dollars and in 2014 it has been 6,046 dollars. For product tanker a Handysize the respective figures are pairs to 4.164 dollars and 7,931 dollars".

"The challenge for the shipping - it has emphasized Greiner - is as including the operating costs in the hires, in a way that allows reasonable profit margins in a field that is strongly subject to the competition and is characterized by a tonnage excess. Since over the coming years the commercial exchanges anniversaries for marine way are destined to grow to a reasonable rate and that the costs for the adaptation to the norms are destined to increase in meaningful way, us would have to be attended that the operating costs will grow in the same period. Two things - it has concluded Greiner - are sure. In the first place the business of the management of ships will continue to being an onerous activity. In the second place, the impulse for an increase of the hires will not reach from the customers of the field of the shipping".