transport logistic 2009: Solution strategies for international maritime shipping
The worldwide economic downturn has also impacted fully on the maritime sector. Prices and demand have crumbled, and significant overcapacity is threatening the existence of some shipping companies. Are there any signs of a recovery yet? How can maritime logistics best get out of these choppy waters? Leading experts from the sector will be discussing these and other questions at transport logistic 2009, from 12 to 15 May in Munich, and in the mariLOG conference, which takes place in parallel with the trade fair.
(firmenpresse) - mariLOG, the 5th International Conference on Maritime Logistics, takes place on 12 May 2009, from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., within the framework of the transport logistic 2009 exhibition. As well as the effects of the global recession on world trade, other topics will of course also be up for discussion at mariLOG, for example how to improve the links between sea ports and their hinterland. Thanks to government programmes to boost the economy there are good opportunities at present to push ahead with important initiatives. Another important topic is how to improve the efficiency of processes in the maritime ports themselves, and of the information chain right through to the shippers. Industry analysts and practitioners will be airing their views and experience in these areas at mariLOG. The congress will close with a final panel discussion on how to tap into efficiency reserves in transport connections between maritime ports and their hinterland. Taking part in this discussion, between 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on 12 May, are Emile Hoogsteden, Director Containers at Breakbulk & Logistics Port of Rotterdam, Dr. Sebastian Jürgens, Board Member of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, Dr. Wilfried Schumacher, Business Unit Director of Wincanton, Helmut Frank, Managing Partner of the ACOS Group AG, and Luc Aernouts, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at the Antwerp Port Authority.
Around 160 European inland and maritime ports will be exhibiting at transport logistic 2009, among them, for example, Europe´s largest inland port, Duisburg, and international transhipment ports such as Antwerp, Bremen, Hamburg and Rotterdam. The French maritime ports will be exhibiting in their first pavilion at the fair.
Few sectors have benefited so much in recent years from globalisation as maritime shipping: in good years, container traffic grew by up to 20 percent. The effect of the recession on shipping operators has therefore been all the more severe. "There will certainly be some shipping companies that will not survive financially," expects Burkhard Lemper from the Bremer Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik (ISL). In times of recession, the German government will continue to "actively support" shipping, invest in the maritime infrastructure and do everything it can to boost international trade – this was the promise given recently by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 6th National Maritime Conference in Rostock. "Tonnage tax and the retention of wages tax will remain," announced the Chancellor to the shipping companies. Both were necessary to secure the size of the German commercial fleet, she assured them. However, Mrs Merkel also said that, with little over 500 ships operating under the German flag, the shippers had reached only "the minimum target" agreed in the Maritime Alliance. Accordingly, the Chancellor reiterated her appeal that there should be no let-up in re-registering ships under the German flag, and in training initiatives.
Regardless of the current economic situation, the prospects for maritime trade are seen as very positive for the long term: Over 90,000 ships (larger than 100 bt) are registered worldwide, around 50,000 of them operate internationally. The United Nations noted that "the capability of maritime operations, in particular ownership of considerable tonnage, is of fundamental importance to a country in supporting and promoting its trade." Around 90 percent of worldwide commercial tonnage is now transported by sea, estimates the European Community Shipowners Association. In the last 40 years maritime trade has grown by over 400 percent. One particularly important area is the container segment, which is expected to expand by a further 400 percent through to the year 2022.
Worldwide there are over 8,000 ports and terminals, of which around 2,000 are of significance – but the industry is dominated by the top 50. Taken globally, there is a continued trend away from traditional shipping with bulk loose material and general cargo (not containerised) towards standardised freight transport (containerised and roll-on/roll-off). As container traffic is growing strongly over the long term, notwithstanding the present situation, port capacities are being expanded significantly at several locations. For example, over 10 billion dollars has been invested in recent years in the port of Shanghai in the Yangtze delta. At only eleven metres of depth, the river at Shanghai had become too shallow for the giant container ships, so 50 kilometres downstream from the city a new deep-sea port was built. The biggest container ships in the world can now anchor here. A 30-kilometre long bridge links the port with the mainland. By 2020 at the latest the port of Shanghai will be the biggest in the world. Right next to it, the port city of Lingang is now being built, with plans to house one million people here. Spain also sees great potential for its ports: by 2020 the country is planning to invest around 23 billion euros in port infrastructure. This initiative is intended specifically to boost coastal shipping and hinterland transports.
transport logistic
The 12th International Exhibition for Logistics, Telematics and Transport takes place from 12 to 15 May 2009 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. transport logistic is the world´s biggest trade fair for the multi-facetted industry of moving goods by road, rail, water and air. The fair´s portfolio covers logistics and freight transport, telematics and in-company transport and material flow. Integrated in transport logistic 2009 is Air Cargo Europe, an exhibition and conference for the global air cargo business taking place for the fourth time. The extensive conference programme and the trade conferences, the 4th Air Cargo Europe and the 5th mariLOG for maritime logistics, provide an expert overview of new markets, trends and innovations in the international transport and logistics industry. transport logistic 2009 is expected to attract more than 1,600 exhibitors from over 55 countries. The statistics for the fair are independently audited on behalf of the Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe- und Ausstellungszahlen (FKM), a society for the voluntary control of fair and exhibition statistics.
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