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With Zeamarine's collapse, peers were favored with vessels at reasonable prices and new customers. So far, however, the benefits of fewer players remain to be seen. ShippingWatch has interviewed AAL Shipping's CEO Kyriacos Panayides.
During a turbulent time for the project cargo sector, Singapore-based AAL Shipping establishes a new liner service between Europe and Asia. At the same time, the company is making a number of organizational changes.
Germany's Zeamarine has not been able to get its commercial affairs properly in order, notes one of the chief execs who have set the special cargo industry standard in recent decades. ShippingWatch has interviewed BBC Chartering's former CEO Svend Andersen.
Zeamarine is trying to offload more vessels than the 15 ships already sold to rivals, several sources inform ShippingWatch. Weco confirms redelivery of three ships.
It cost Thorco and the Stadil family roughly USD 150 million to be a shipowner, but that is over now, and Thorco Projects CEO Thomas Mikkelsen is highly optimistic about a project market where one commodity in particular boosts his confidence in the future.
Svend Andersen is stepping down for good as CEO of large heavy lift company BBC Chartering. His replacement has already been found.
Project cargo shipping company BBC Chartering has found a successor to CEO Svend Andersen, who will step down following an unspecified transitional period. Until then the new hire will serve as CCO.
BBC Chartering has once again overtaken Cosco's specialized ship operator to become the largest company in project cargo. Thorco goes down on the list, though its CEO tells ShippingWatch that he does not recognize the numbers.
Monday afternoon European time, Oaktree Capital Management confirms that Hansa Heavy Lift has filed for insolvency.
While new cases of bad bunker seem to have come to a halt, existing cases are still causing headaches among shipowners, charterers and suppliers, says Mathias Steinø, partner at firm Hafnia Law, to ShippingWatch.
BBC Chartering has had to pay large extra costs for tug boats as well as having several ships cleaned after tanking contaminated bunker. CEO Svend Andersen says that the project cargo carrier is among the hardest hit in the widespread cases related to the damaging bunker.
One decisive factor contributes to a small recovery in the hard-pressed heavy lift segment. But the rates need to increase by 20-40 percent before the market can be described as healthy, says the CEO of the world's second-largest project cargo carrier, Svend Andersen, in an interview with ShippingWatch.
Entering 2018, China's Cosco took the position as the world's largest multipurpose carrier in the crisis-stricken sector, while the Stadil family's Thorco Projects is shrinking its fleet, shows a new review.
Unprofitable multipurpose vessels, which German banks are left holding, are being moved around big-time among shipowners. "We're basically competing against zombies these days, which exist with continuing support from the banks," says one market player.
US project carrier Intermarine has secured the former head of Nordana to lead an expanded liner service on the Atlantic, while BBC Chartering and Spliethoff are similarly expanding on the Atlantic.
The German multipurpose carrier has experienced a decline in cargo volumes in Asia by almost one third in the first months of the year. "We are preparing for a tough year," COO Henrik Pedersen tells ShippingWatch.
Germany's BBC Chartering expanded its fleet significantly over the last six months of 2016, during a time in which the multipurpose market has been historically weak. The Stadil family's Thorco ranks at third-largest in the world, according to calculations form Dynamar.
In December, the two major Dutch banks ING and ABN Amro forced the first large-scale consolidation through in the ailing multipurpose sector. Now the market is waiting on what the banks will do next in the German hub for specialized vessels. Drewry eyes slight improvement in late 2017.
Banks including ING and ABN Amro are demanding compulsory sales of more than 20 Dutch-controlled multi-purpose vessels after cancelling loans to the vessels. ABN Amro has now cancelled the credit to Abis Shipping's fleet of more than 12 ships.
Extensive consolidation in the global heavy lift industry is underway and will presumably materialize in the coming months, several industry sources tell ShippingWatch. Heavyweights BBC Chartering and SAL Heavy Lift can play a key part in the resolution of the ailing industry's future.
In a specialized cargo market where the prices have been dragged way down, BBC Chartering in Asia has found a way to stand out from the crowd.
While the competition keeps talking about the crisis, BBC Chartering projects another positive result this year, a fact the company has kept to itself so far. One of the carrier's strengths is the many offices working closely together, the Managing Director for Asia tells ShippingWatch.
It looked like a huge boom for project and heavy lift vessels in the first half of 2015 but the freight volumes trickled right out of the market, says Svend Andersen, CEO of BBC Chartering, the world's largest operator in the segment.
Danish Lars Rolner is behind the new company United Heavy Lift in Hamburg. Read why he has decided to take action in the midst of a crisis and what ambitions he has for the company.
Danske Lars Rolner står bag det nye selskab United Heavy Lift i Hamborg. Læs hvorfor han har valgt at sætte ind under en krise, og hvilke ambitioner han har for selskabet.
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