The
LPG Forecaster (formerly known as the Drewry LPG Quarterly) provides business owners and managers, investors and observers with groundbreaking analyses and forecasts of all the key LPG market variables.
Addressing a critical information gap, the
LPG Forecaster is the only single source that reviews recent trends and outlines future prospects from the maritime perspective, in terms of trade, fleet chartering and costs.
No other single source can offer every three months:
- Short-term forecast of all the key market variables
- Drewry's latest 5 year forecast positions
- Assessment and forecast of vessel supply and demand
- Detailed assessments of charter market activity and freight rates
- Evaluation and outlook of the LPG market from a shipping perspective
- Extensive regional trade statistics covering: LPG, ammonia and petrochemicals
- Appraisal of vessel operating costs
Choose the purchase interval that suits you- Quarterly subscription – for keeping right up to date. Annual subscription (4 quarterly issues).
- Once a year – when you don’t need this wealth of data so regularly
- Single purchase of latest edition – to trial its effectiveness as an intelligence resource
1. Executive summary
• What next for self sustainability?
• Tonnage oversupply?
• Weather god helps, but till when?
2. Economy and trade
• The world economy
• LPG supply & demand
• LPG consumption
• LPG production
• LPG trade
• LPG imports
• LPG exports
• Ammonia
• Petrochemical gases
• Prices
3. Demand/supply
• Fleet 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, Jan 2009 to Apr 2010
• LPG carrier orderbook, end-Apr 2010
• LPG carrier deliveries, Jan 2009 to Apr 2010
• LPG S&P transactions, Jan 2009 to Apr 2010
• LPG carrier demolition sales, Jan 2009 to Apr 2010
• LPG carrier fleet age profile, end-Apr 2010
• LPG carrier shipping incidents
• LPG time charter fixtures – 1Q10
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
• OECD LPG consumption
• LPG production and consumption
• Chinese LPG imports
• Japanese LPG imports
• South Korean LPG imports
• USA LPG imports
• Indian LPG imports
• EU27 external LPG imports
• Turkish LPG imports
• Middle East LPG exports
• Algeria LPG exports
• Norway LPG exports
• Global Ammonia plants capacity
• Ammonia imports by selected countries
• USA Ammonia imports
• Ethylene imports by selected countries
• EU27 external petrochemical gases trade
• Chinese petrochemicals gases trade
• Ethylene capacity
• Prices
• Propane prices
• Butane prices
• Gas carrier seaborne trade, 2008
• Seaborne trade development
• LPG carrier fleet
• Gas carrier tonne-mile demand, 2008
• LPG carrier orderbook
• Orders for new tonnage: confirmed orders & options declared
• LPG carrier deliveries
• LPG carrier demolition
• LPG carrier supply/demand balances
• S&P/demolition 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 for 2004-2013
• F/R fleet
• F/R orderbook
• Fleet changes
• Forecast freight rates
• 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 changes
• 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-NEW – Quarerly
• Ethylene spot rates: USG-NEW – Annual
• PR fleet development
• P/R new orders
• Coastal spot rates: NWE-NWE – Quarterly
• Coastal spot rates: NWE-NWE – Annual
• LPG consumption
• LPG production
• Top 10 LPG consumers
• Top 10 LPG producers
• LPG production, consumption and regional balances in 2008
• Far East LPG imports by source
• Ammonia imports by region
• Ammonia prices
• Global ethylene capacity
• Ethylene prices
• US propylene stocks and contract prices
• Contract prices
• Spot prices
• Seaborne trade: million tonnes
• Seaborne trade: million tonne miles
• Seaborne trade by region in 2008: million tonnes
• Seaborne trade by region in 2008: billion tonne miles
• LPG fleet development
• Orderbook as % of fleet
• LPG carrier supply/demand
• Spot rates
• Period rates
• Newbuilding/S&P price index
• Age profile
• LPG investment activity
• Fleet by class
• Orderbook by class
• Fleet development
• Baltic LPG Index
• F/R orderbook as % of fleet
• VLGC spot rates
• F/R period 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
• 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
• Fleet development
• PR orderbook as % of fleet
• Coastal LPG spot rate: 1,800 mt NWE-NWE
• Coastal period rates
• Coastal newbuilding prices
• Coastal S&P prices
• PR fleet age profile
The
LPG Forecaster provides a wealth of detail on the LPG market from a business perspective. 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.
Every three months the LPG Forecaster will deliver up-dated and topical analysis, comment and Drewry's latest forecast positions across the whole spectrum of demand, supply, freight rate and cost issues.
As a subscriber to the LPG Forecaster you will uniquely have: - Drewy's latest forecasts
- Up-to-date key LPG market information
- Notification of new edition availability via e-mail alert
- Access to the Forecaster via Drewry’s Internet site – password access to PDF files for download by subscribers
- Access to an archive of published Forecasters covering your subscription period
- Access to easy to use PDF files