The role of the nations developing in the world-wide industry of the shipping grows



The role of the nations developing within the world-wide industry of the shipping is growing. It emphasizes the last relationship on international the marine transport of the Conference of the United Nations on the Commerce and Development (UNCTAD) from the title "Maritime Review of Transport 2011".

The Developing countries - the relationship explains - are expanding their participation in a different range marine activities: they have already occupied positions of relief in the naval demolition (in particular Bangladesh), in the registration of the ships and the supply of marine staff (Philippine) and now - the document specifies - these nations are increasing their market shares in marine to greater intensity of capital or technologically advance fields as the shipbuilding and the armament. In 2010, for example, China and the Republic of Korea have constructed altogether 72.4% of the world-wide ability to ships in terms of gross capacities in tons (tpl) and nine of the 20 main nations of the shipowning field are Developing countries.

The naval financing, the insurance services and the classification of the ships - specific anchor the relationship - are between the little marine fields up to now dominated from the economies more advances, but also in these sections the nations developing have recently demonstrated to have of potential the necessary one in order to become main operators of the market. India, for example, has joined to the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) and through this a easier at the market international access of the classification of the ships makes sure. Moreover China now has two of the main banks of the world for the naval credit.

Between the 1970 and 2010 quota the total volume of imports by sea of pertinence of the Developing countries has grown from hardly 18% to 56%.

In order to remain competitive the shipowning companies of those the advanced nations and of developing more and more make confidence on coming goods and services from the Developing countries. In 1970 - the relationship remembers - the shipowners already made use flags convenient that they allowed to assume coming crews from Countries with low costs of labor. More recently, the shipowning companies have begun also to acquire own ships in the ship yards of Developing countries as those constructed in the European or American ship yards often turn out too much expensive.

The relationship of the UNCTAD emphasizes however that if on one side the consolidation of the services supplied from the field of the containerized marine transport has determined a greater operating efficiency, this can have involved also a loss of being able legal by some players and therefore to have caused a total decrease of the efficiency for the nations with inferior to be able commercial. In particular, last July the UNCTAD has found that very 35 coastal nations are served by not more than three companies than line regarding the 25 coastal nations hardly five years ago.

Moreover many developed Countries less still do not have the ability to participate totally to the marine activities, that they more and more demand technological abilities advanced and the presence of industrial clusters or services. Therefore these nations find themselves to face the double challenge of having to improve their harbour structures in order to receive larger ships and meanwhile to assist to a reduction of the competition that determines a decrease of the regular services of marine transport that they call in their ports.

More in general terms, the "Review of Maritime Transport 2011" of the UNCTAD evidences as the globalization of the marine activities has allowed with the shipowning companies to economically make use of suppliers more convenient and as this has determined a cost reduction of the international transportation, fact that generates a direct benefit for world-wide the commercial exchanges.

The relationship explains that in the 2010 marine transport it has recorded an increase of the question, in particular in the solid bulk and of the containerized transport, and last year the commercial exchanges by sea has reached a total estimated in 8,4 billion tons.

From the side of the offer, 2010 have seen the delivery record of new tonnage of ships, with an increment of 28% regarding the 2009 and consequent increase of 8.6% of world-wide the mercantile fleet. Last January the ability to the world-wide fleet has reached almost 1,4 billion gross capacities in tons, with an increment of 120 million tpl regarding 2010. In particular, the new deliveries have attested to 150 million tpl, while the demolitions and the other modalities of withdrawal from the market (disarmament, etc) are piled to about 30 million tpl.