2011 is a peak year for ship recycling with about
40 million DWT; the global amount has reached its highest level since 1986. In
the past 3 years, from 2009-2011, the ship recycling trade volume was released,
including 20-year old ships: dry bulk carriers, container ships and single
shell oil tankers. The ship recycling market will
probably go into recession in the second half of 2012 or into a dilemma with
"no ships to recycle". It will no doubt be a blow to those
small and medium-sized shipping enterprises that have just shifted to ship
recycling.
The profit of the ship recycling industry mainly
depends on two ends:
Ø
the upstream
of supplying old or unseaworthy ship resources and
Ø
the downstream
of demand for iron and steel scrap.
Due to the impact of the delivery, the shipbreaking
period, and upstream and downstream price changes, China
Some enterprises aim to develop themselves into the
biggest global ones for ship recycling by seizing more market share, but people
in the field worry that when these enterprises develop new capacity blindly,
they might repeat the mistakes and failures of the shipbuilding industry in
recent years, which will lead to a waste of resources.
From: Dalian
Port
Source: Noodls. 1 December 2011
http://www.noodls.com/viewNoodl/12308937/dalian-municipal-government/peak-year-for-ship-recycling
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