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FLEETING STRENGTH Ranking Leading Industry Carriers
Dynamar B.V.’s biennial study on the breakbulk industry is an exhaustive analysis of breakbulk, heavy-lift and project vessel operators and services. First in Issue 4 and now here, Breakbulk offers exclusive content from Breakbulk IV – Operators, Fleets, Markets, the latest edition of the study. This issue features a market outlook and a ranking of leading breakbulk operators, written by Dirk Visser, author and managing editor for Dynamar.
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he deadweight of all ships operated by the 25 largest breakbulk operators in Dynamar’s rankings represents 31 percent of the total deadweight of the world fleet of similar ships and 16 percent in terms of the number of vessels. Those shares are higher for their order books, standing at more than 29 percent and 27 percent, respectively. Because of their large open-hatch cargo ships, or OHCS, forest products carrier Gearbulk (first), Saga-Welco – the result of a merger between Saga42 BREAKBULK MAGAZINE www.breakbulk.com
Forest and Westfal-Larsen – (second) and Grieg Star (fourth) are among the top spots in this breakbulk ranking. Two smaller operators are using OHCS as well: GMB Maritime (20th) and Westwood (25th). Completing the top five are, at third, Coscol, or COSCO Shipping Co. Ltd., part of China COSCO Shipping Corp. (COSCOCS) Ltd., the result of the recent merger of China Shipping and COSCO; and, at fifth, BBC Chartering of Leer, Germany, part of the privately owned Briese group of companies. Although the Chinese no longer use older, conventional liner vessels, their
much younger ships are quite a bit larger (averaging 25,900 deadweight tons) than those of the Germans (11,700 dwt). On the other hand, the latter’s vessels have an almost 40 percent higher-thanaverage heavy-lift capability. Three years ago, the average year of build of Coscol’s ships was 1996, compared with 2007 today; BBC’s fleet was built in 2008 on average. Other carriers in the ranking operating in more or less the same semi-liner segment as Coscol include: • Chipolbrok (eighth), plying the Europe-Middle East-Indian Subcontinent-Far East routes. • Rickmers-Linie (13th), with its eastbound Pearl String round-the-world operation. Typical multipurpose liner operators with (predominantly) scheduled services comprise: • AAL (11th), Far East-Australia and North America West Coast. • Atlantic Ro-Ro Carriers, or ARRC, (23rd), transatlantic. • Ethiopian Shipping Lines, or ESLSE (19th), East Africa-Red Sea-Middle EastFar East routes. • GMB Maritime (20th), EuropeMiddle East. • MACS (11th), North Europe and U.S. Gulf-South Africa. • PIL, or Pacific International Lines, (17th), Far East-West Africa. ISSUE 5 / 2016