the world-wide net of marine services of line is controlled by a number always smaller of shipowning companies



Last year the ability to hold of world-wide the commercial fleet has grown of +3.54%, percentage that more low represents the rate of growth in beyond a decade. It evidences the last relationship on the world-wide marine transport published from the Conference of the United Nations on the Commerce and Development (UNCTAD), specifying that on 1° January the cargo ability of the world-wide fleet era pairs to 1.749.222.000 deadweight tons, volume totaled from 89.464 ships.
Adjustment:
The relative data to the Italian fleet have been erroneously inverts, that it instead turns out to be composed from 803 ships, of which 596 under Italian flag and 207 under foreign flag, for a total of 22.002.182 gross capacities in tons (1.27% of the world-wide total), of which 16,0 million under national flag and 6,0 million under foreign flag.
The precise relationship that continuous Greece to being the main nation of the shipowning field with a fleet of 4.017 ships, of which 796 clappers Greek flag and 3,221 of foreign flag, for a total ability pairs to 279.429.790 gross 16.11% that is capacities in tons, of the world-wide total, of which 70,4 million tpl under national flag and 209,0 million tpl under foreign flag. In the ranking of the main Countries of the shipowning field, after Greece they figure Japan, China, Germany and Singapore, and together the five nations control beyond the half of the world-wide fleet in terms of cargo ability. Italy is placed to 16simo the place with ~~596~~ ships, of which ~~207~~ under Italian flag and ~~803~~ under foreign flag, for a total of 22.002.182 gross capacities in tons (1.27% of the world-wide total), of which ~~6,0 million~~ under national flag and ~~22,0 million~~ under foreign flag.

The relationship finds moreover that in the past decade China, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Singapore have scaled positions in classify of the greater shipping Countries, while Germany, Norway and the United States today have an inferior market share to that of 2005.

In the document the UNCTAD anticipates also the Liner Shipping Connectivity Index newly, the index that defines a indicator of the access of a nation to the total net of the services of marine transport of line. The last update sees China which nation with the most elevated index continuation from Singapore, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Germany. The nations Africans with the best connection to the world-wide net of line services are Morocco, Egypt and South Africa, directory whom - the relationship observes - the positioning of these Countries to the angles of the continent reflects. In Latin America the best index is recorded by Panama hat, that it benefits of the Channel of Panama hat and of the being mails to the crossroads of the main routes East-West and north-south, continuation from Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.

With respect to the distribution of the fleet between the shipowning societies, the relationship evidences as the data in existence reflect the process of concentration in the marine transport of line that has seen the recent fusions of the activities of transport of line of the companies South American Compañía de Vapores (CSAV) and Hapag-Lloyd, and of the companies Compañía Chilena de Navegación Interoceánica (CCNI) and Hamburg Süd ( on December 2, 2014 and 31 March 2015). Such concentration is rimarcata by the emphasized difference of the trend of the ability to hold of the world-wide fleet of portacontainer, that it is tripled between 2004 and 2015, and that of the medium number of shipowning companies whose services land to the ports of every nation, that it is diminished of -29%. Both the tendencies - the UNCTAD observes - show two faces of the same medal: while the ships become larger and the companies aim to realize economies of scale, the single markets are served by a more and more meager number of companies. The relationship of the intergovernmental agency of the UN finds that politics will have to tackle to the challenge to support the technological developments and to promote a cost reduction, for example through the economies of scale, and meanwhile to guarantee a sufficiently competitive market so that the cost reductions have effective fallen back on the customers, that is the importers and the exporter.

The world-wide net of marine services of line therefore is controlled by an always smaller number of shipowning companies. The relationship explains that at the beginning of the 2015 first ten society of line navigation they operated beyond 61% of the fleet of portacontainer world-wide container and the first 20 companies controlled 83% of all the ability to coontainerizzato marine transport. Moreover the three greater companies of the field had a quota pairs almost 35% of the world-wide total.

The relationship stops also on the phenomenon of the increasing excess of hold determined from the important investments carried out from the companies in order to equip itself of portacontenitori ships of greater ability in the attempt to realize economies of scale.