Drewry’s quarterly appraisal
of the LPG shipping market.
·
Detailed assessments of charter market activity,
freight rates and vessel supply and demand
·
Evaluation and outlook of the LPG market from a
shipping perspective
·
Extensive regional trade statistics covering: LPG,
ammonia and petrochemicals forecast up to 5 years forwards
·
Appraisal of vessel operating costs
1. Executive summary
• Drewry’s forecast performance
• Imports go down in the Far East
• No immediate gain for VLGCs
• Economic woes still a major concern
• Mild winters, subdued demand
2. Trade
• The world economy
• LPG supply and demand
• LPG consumption
• LPG production
• LPG trade
• LPG imports
• LPG exports
• Ammonia
• Petrochemical gases
• Prices
3. Demand/supply
• LPG demand
• Fleet supply
• Supply/demand balances
• Companies, markets and outlook
4. Fully refrigerated - LPG/Ammonia
• Demand
• Supply
• Freight markets
• Newbuilding
• Secondhand
• Demolition
• Outlook
5. Semi-refrigerated - Petrochemical gases
• Demand
• Supply
• Freight markets
• Newbuilding
• Secondhand
• Demolition
• Outlook
6. Pressurised coastal LPG
• Demand
• Supply
• Freight markets
• Newbuilding
• Secondhand
• Demolition
• Outlook
7. Listings
• LPG carrier new orders
• LPG carrier orderbook
• LPG carrier deliveries
• LPG S&P transactions
• LPG carrier demolition sales
• LPG carrier fleet age profile
• LPG carrier shipping incidents
• LPG time charter fixtures
Appendix
• Abbreviations
• Regional groupings
• Gas characteristics
• Conversion factors
• Prices
Tables
• Freight rates
• Real GDP growth and forecasts - annual
• Exchange rates
• LPG market indicators
• VLGC freight rates
• S/R time charter rates
• P/R time charter rates
• The market - at a glance
• Top five LPG consumers
• Top five LPG producers
• Regional LPG production and consumption
• Chinese LPG imports
• Japanese LPG imports
• South Korean LPG imports
• US LPG imports
• Indian LPG imports
• EU27 external LPG imports
• Middle East LPG exports
• Algerian LPG exports
• Norwegian LPG exports
• USA LPG exports
• Ammonia imports by selected countries
• US Ammonia imports
• Ethylene imports by selected countries
• EU27 external petrochemical gases trade
• Chinese petrochemical gas trade
• Ethylene capacity
• Propane prices
• Butane prices
• Seaborne trade development
• Gas carrier seaborne trade
• LPG carrier fleet
• LPG carrier fleet average size
• Gas carrier tonne-mile demand
• LPG carrier orderbook
• Orders for new tonnage: confirmed orders
• LPG carrier deliveries
• LPG carrier demolition
• LPG carrier supply/demand balances
• S&P activity
• Historical and forecast period charter rates
• Newbuilding prices
• Secondhand prices
• Demolition values - period average
• Investment returns
• Historical and forecast bunker prices
• Representative VLGC operating cost
• Orderbook: Top ten shipyard
• F/R fleet
• F/R orderbook
• Fleet changes
• Freight rates
• Forecast freight rates
• Vessel values
• S/R fleet
• S/R fleet changes
• S/R orderbook
• Ethylene fleet
• S/R spot freight rates
• S/R freight rates
• Forecast S/R freight rates
• S/R vessel values - 15,000 cbm
• Ethylene vessel values - 7,500 cbm
• PR fleet
• PR fleet asset market
• PR orderbook
• Coastal freight rates
• Forecast coastal freight rates
• PR vessel values - 3,200 cbm
• S/R vessel values - 3,200 cbm
Figures
• Drewry LPG index
• Fleet development
• Prices – NW Europe spot
• OECD LPG demand
• LPG imports
• F/R fleet development
• F/R new orders
• VLGC spot rates: AG-Japan – Quarterly
• VLGC spot rates: AG-Japan – Annual
• S/R fleet development
• S/R new orders
• Ethylene spot rates: USG-NWE – Quarterly
• Ethylene spot rates: USG-NWE – Annual
• PR fleet development
• P/R new orders
• Coastal spot rates: NWE-NWE – Quarterly
• Coastal spot rates: NWE-NWE – Annual
• Top five LPG consumers
• Top five LPG producers
• Far East LPG imports by source
• Ammonia imports by region
• Global ethylene capacity
• Ethylene prices
• US propane/propylene stocks & contract prices
• Contract prices
• Spot prices
• Seaborne trade: million tonnes
• Seaborne trade: billion tonne-miles
• Seaborne trade by region: million tonnes
• Seaborne trade by region: billion-tonne miles
• LPG fleet development
• Orderbook as % of fleet
• LPG carrier supply/demand
• Spot rates
• Period rates
• Newbuilding/S&P price index
• LPG investment activity
• Age profile
• Age group of the LPG fleet by size segment
• Fleet by class
• Orderbook by class
• Fleet development
• Baltic Exchange LPG Index
• F/R orderbook as % of fleet
• VLGC spot rates, AG-Japan
• VLGC spot rates, AG-NWE
• VLGC spot rates, AG-USG
• VLGC spot rates, Algeria-NWE
• VLGC spot rates, Algeria-USG
• VLGC spot rates, Black Sea-USG, NH3
• F/R period rates
• VLGC spot rates
• F/R newbuilding prices
• F/R secondhand values
• F/R demolition values
• Middle East exports v. VLGC spot rates
• VLGC fleet development v VLGC spot rates
• F/R fleet age profile
• Age group of the F/R fleet by size segment
• Fleet development
• S/R orderbook as % of fleet
• Spot rates
• S/R period rates
• S/R newbuilding prices
• S/R S&P prices
• S/R fleet age profile
• Age of the S/R fleet by size segment
• Fleet development
• PR orderbook as % of fleet
• Coastal LPG spot rate: 1,800 mt NWE-NWE
• Coastal LPG spot rate: 3,000 mt NWE-EE/NA
• Coastal period rates
• Coastal newbuilding prices
• Coastal S&P prices
• PR fleet age profile
• Age of the PR fleet by size segment
The LPG Forecaster provides a wealth of detail on the
global LPG shipping market. Comprehensive freight rate assessments are provided
including spot rates and time charter rates. Fleet developments are covered in
detail and extensive regional trade statistics covering LPG, ammonia and
petrochemicals.
Published quarterly, the LPG
Forecaster provides you with updated forecasts, analysis and insight as well as
covering topical developments in the market. This report addresses the critical
information gap for the LPG shipping market
Contents
An executive summary provides
a topical look at the market, with recent trends and events discussed.
Following this there are a series of chapters dealing with different aspects of
LPG shipping in the global market.
Global
trade
This chapter
looks at worldwide LPG supply and demand, consumption and production, as well
as providing detailed information on LPG imports and exports. Ammonia and petrochemical
gases, such as US Shale gas, are also discussed in this section, specifically
referring to the global trade in these products.
Finally, pricing of LPG is discussed providing an in depth overview of
the market.
Demand/supply
This chapter focuses specifically on demand and supply aspects of the
global LPG shipping market. LPG demand and fleet supply are taken into account
whilst analysis and insight is given on Supply/demand balances and selected companies,
markets and outlook
Vessel segment specific analysis
Finally,
chapters devoted to a range of vessels segments are presented. These segments
include:
·
Fully refrigerated
LPG – Ammonia
·
Semi refrigerated –
Petrochem gases
·
Pressurised Costal
LPG
For each of
these segments, information is given on:
·
Supply and Demand analysis
·
Freight market insight
·
Newbuilding and Secondhand pricing
·
Demolition and fleet outlook
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