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Tanker & Bulk Overview Martin Stopford, Marine Money Hamburg 24 Feb 2011 1 30th September 2010 CLARKSON RESEARCH SERVICES LTD Martin Stopford CRSL 24 th Feb 2011 Tanker & Bulker Markets Tanker & Bulker Markets Marine Money Hamburg 30th September 2010 CLARKSON RESEARCH SERVICES LTD The Agenda For Today 1. Fundamentals 2. Economic Outlook 3. Shipbuilding Outlook 4. Tanker Outlook 5. Bulker Outlook 6. Conclusions 90 115 140 165 190 After two years the pressures are building

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Martin Stopford

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The Agenda For Today

1. Fundamentals 2. Economic Outlook3. Shipbuilding Outlook4. Tanker Outlook5. Bulker Outlook6. Conclusions

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190 After two years the pressures are

building

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2. Shipping Bankers

We only need

$800MM Sir

1. Shipping investors

What shall I

buy now?

3. Shipbuilders

We want to make loads of money building ships

Why not build our

own fleet?

4. Charterers

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Shipping In The 2010sShipping In The 2010s• We entered the 2000s

decade with excellent fundamentals -China “taking off”, not much shipbuilding capacity, and an old fleet

• The result was the strongest boom for years.

• In 2010 we started a new decade with the Credit Crisis problems, China steel slowing; record shipbuilding capacity

Shall we say $5 a tonne?

Cargo owner Ship owner

B**tard!

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World Economy & Sea Trade 2000 2010

Sea trade M tonnes 5,911 8,154 38%Trade Growth (last 10 years) % pa 4.30% 3.80%

World FleetFleet M Dwt 800 1,292 62%Fleet Growth previous decade % p.a. 3.60% 6.1%Tons/dwt 7.4 6.3

ShipbuildingShipbuilding Deliveries M dwt 45.8 152 232%Deliveries % Fleet % fleet 6% 12%

Orderbook M Dwt 93.2 471.2 406%% Fleet 12% 36%

Fundamentals 2000 and 2010

Increase

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SERIOUS SURPLUS SMALL SURPLUS SMALL SHORTAGEBulk Shipping Fundamentals balance

SMALL…

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Capes won, products lost

Ship Type League Table 2010

*Ratio KeyRatio Key1 = deep recession or depression2 = recession3 = mild recession4-6 = Strong Market etc

Rank Size TEU Earnings OPEX Ratio *1 Capesize 29,601 7,512 3.942 VLCC 37,970 10,812 3.513 Suezmax 31,328 9,309 3.374 Handymax 19,465 5,991 3.255 Panamax 18,472 6,321 2.925 Aframax 18,823 8,374 2.256 3300 TEU 12,313 8,000 1.547 2500 TEU 9,171 6,500 1.4110 1700 TEU 6,471 5,500 1.1811 Clean Prod 9,048 7,908 1.14

Earnings League Table 2010

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Prices heading back to 1990s levels

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Millionaire for a day

Look, this one offers a $50,000

mortgage, $100,000 cash back & free

coffee

Where shall I put the credit

default swaps, pal?

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THIS CHART SHOWS WORLD INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIONBounce

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Index 1992=100

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The Oil Price – Trending Up

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After 20 years of cheap oil the crude price is

heading up

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China's Trade Growth

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China Trade Surge & Stagnation

• After a big jump China’s imports look as though they have got stuck in a rut at 120 Mt/month

• Exports are very sluggish

Mt trade per month

1. Trade takes offin 2000

2. Investment overheats

2005

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Oil, Dry Bulk Trade Growth

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Sea Trade Scenarios 1950-2020

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Growth of sea trade

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World Shipbuilding: Past The Peak!

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Restructuring of capacity 1976-86

Looks like 2010 was the peak of the shipbuilding boom with

97 m GT deliveries

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Investment In New Ships

1. Between 2003 and 2008 the industry ordered $857 billion of new ships

2. 50% of the orders were placed in 2007/8 when prices were at a peak

3. The pace of investment slumped to $28 Million in 2009

4. $72bn investment in 2010

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Price of new Cape (right axis)

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Deliveries– The Downturn Scenario

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Shipyard Output: Downturn Starts

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The graph shows deliveries per quarter in million CGT downswing starts (but still

preliminary data)

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Quarterly Shipbuilding Output: By Country

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Newbuilding Prices 1990-2010

• Aframax tanker price peaked at $75 million in 2008

• Today a new Aframax costs about $58 million

• Orders firm over summer but Autumn quieter

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Index peaks at 190

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World Merchant Fleet

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Tanker Earnings 1990-2008

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VLCC Cost & Revenue 1990-2011

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• Oil demand jumped 2.8 m bpd in 2010 and 1.4 m bpd increase predicted for 2011

• That would push up oil trade by about 4%

Million barrels per day

IEA Forecast Feb 2011

9.5 m bpd growth

2000-2007

Figure 6: World oil demand 2000-2011 & IEA projection

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Tanker orders, deliveries, scrapping and future deliveries

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1. Massive collapse2. China Steel declining3. Rates own to

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Capesize heads for its terminal

BulkerForecast

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Dry Bulk Carrier Earnings Trend

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Capesize Cost & Revenue 1990-2011

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Steel output sluggish in 2010

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Dry Bulk Deliveries & Demolition

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• The fundamentals are less favourable than they were at the start of the last decade

• Trade could be ok but the economic outlook is still worrying

• Shipyard output has peaked.• The big orderbook is rolling out and

it’s now hard to stop so the fleet will grow fast

• Tankers have sluggish demand but a smaller orderbook

• Bulkers have stronger demand but big orderbook

• So it looks like a classic shipping recession

Sir John Templeton, one of Wall Street’s greatest investors,

warned against investing in the belief that the world has changed

“The four most expensive words

in the English language are This time it’s different”

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