In 2024, the containerized trade worldwide stood at ***** million TEUs. That represented an increase of approximately **** percent in comparison to the global trade carried by containers reported in 2017.

In 2023, the volume of global seaborne trade was estimated to be almost 12.3 billion tons. In 1990, only about four billion tons of goods were loaded in ports worldwide.

In 2023 the world merchant container ship fleet had a capacity of around 227 million metric tons deadweight. As of January 2021, there were 5,307 container ships in the world's merchant fleet.

Container shipping and global trade As global supply networks consolidate, global value chains increase the need for seaborne transportation of goods. Container shipping is the most cost-effective and environmentally-friendly option to transport goods overseas, despite its considerable environmental footprint. The demand for more seaborne trade calls for larger vessels: the carrying capacity of the global merchant fleet has been increasing steadily during recent decades, reaching nearly two billion deadweight tons in 2020. In that same year, the seaborne trade transport volume was roughly 11 billion metric tons, up from 8 billion metric tons in 2008. Moreover, the global container shipping volume reached some 849 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2021, an increase from 622 million TEUs in 2012.

Leading firms Container shipping a highly capital-intensive economic sector with high potential returns acquired from expanding global demand for the trade of goods. Container lines are constantly under pressure to offer low rates to their customers and maximize vessels' utilization rates. To overcome these challenges, the market has consolidated around three alliances: 2M, Ocean Alliance, and THE Alliance, which together account for 80 percent of the global container market. APM-Maersk, COSCO Shipping, Mediterranean Shipping Company and Hapag-Lloyd are some of the leading container shipping firms globally. Both in terms of the number of ships and TEU capacity, APM-Maersk is the leading container shipping company globally. APM-Maersk's revenue reached almost 62 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year of 2021.

This dataset contains the All India and Year-wise share of Seaborne Trade in the Total Foreign Trade. The proportion of sea-borne trade is given separately for imports and exports out of the total foreign trade.

Demand for seaborne trade is projected to increase in the following decades. Certain segments of seaborne trade will show more growth than others: demand for gas tankers is forecast to grow by 4.4 percent between 2022 and 2030 and by 3.6 percent between 2031 and 2040. Demand for the transport of liquid bulk, on the other hand, if projected to diminish by 0.9 percent between 2031 and 2040 and by 1.3 percent between 2041 and 2050.

In 2021, Asia accounted for over 64 percent of goods unloaded worldwide. That year, roughly seven billion metric tons were unloaded in Asian seaports. With just over 1.7 billion metric tons, Europe accounted for nearly 16 percent of the global volume of goods unloaded. Overall, almost 11 billion metric tons of goods were traded worldwide that year.

This data was obtained through a partnership with IMF, as part of IMF's World Seaborne Trade Monitoring System (Cerdeiro, Komaromi, Liu and Saeed, 2020). The data analysis was supported by the World Bank’s ESMAP and PROBLUE programs.

The dataset contains 6 density layers, with vessel types aggregated to suit the needs of the WBG Offshore Wind Development Program: 1) Commercial ships 2) Fishing ships 3) Oil & Gas [note: this is just platforms, rigs, and FPSOs] 4) Passenger ships 5) Leisure vessels 6) GLOBAL ship density layers of all ship categories combined

The amount of loaded and unloaded goods in the international seaborne trade rose between 2006 and 2021 by around 43 percent. In 2021 the amount of goods loaded worldwide amounted to approximately 11 billion tons.

In 2022, the seaborne container trade sector was the only area of sea-based trade to decrease, lessening by 1.8 percent. All other trade sectors marked an increase in ton-miles, with product based seaborne trade reporting the largest increase, some 8.2 percent in 2022.

The country layer captures the network of ports and routes that facilitate a country’s maritime trade. The includes all the exporting (either in country or in transport connected country), transhipment, and importing (at ports of bilateral trade partner) ports that facilitate a country’s maritime exports, and the importing (either in country or in transport connected country), transhipment, and exporting (at ports of bilateral trade partner) ports that facilitate for a country’s maritime imports. The Oxford Maritime Transport (OxMarTrans) model predicts the allocation of maritime trade flows (based on bilateral trade data) on the maritime transport network, including the port and route taken, to determine the dependency between ports and trade flow. In other words, it captures how trade between origin and destination is most likely being shipped across the global maritime transport network, including the port used for exporting, transhipment (if required) and importing. The resulting network consist of >2.1 million unique port-country pair combinations across >25,000 unique country pairs and 13 economic sectors, which capture what share of maritime trade between two countries going through specific ports and on specific routes. The base year considered is 2022.The 13 economic sectors are based on the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS Convention) and align to the 21 HS Sections as per the table below.NameHS SectionAnimal & Animal Products1Vegetable Products2Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages3+4Mineral Products5Chemical & Allied Industries6Plastics, Rubber, Leather7+8Wood & Wood Products9+10Textiles & Footwear11+12Stone & Glass13+14Metals15Machinery & Electrical Equipment16+18Vehicles & Equipment17Miscellaneous19+20+21The spillover simulator shows the amount of country’s imports or exports that is at-risk of being affected because of a disruption at a selected port in value terms. This could be because the port was exporting/importing a country’s imports/exports, or because of transhipments. This impacts can be analysed in aggregate terms (across all commodity sectors) or per commodity sector. In addition, the amount of trade at-risk is expressed as a fraction of an economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to capture how impactful trade disruptions are in relative terms for respective country economies. It should be noted that in most cases trade is not directly lost, but merely delayed in case of smaller disruptions (<7 days). However, in case of larger disruptions (>30 days) and limited possibilities to reroute goods, trade bottlenecks could occur, potentially resulting in severe supply shortages. GDP data comes from the October 2023 WEO (NGDPD = Gross domestic product, current prices; Year 2022).Source: Verschuur, J., Koks, E.E. & Hall, J.W. Ports’ criticality in international trade and global supply-chains. Nat Commun 13, 4351 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32070-0Variables:from_portid = port id. Full list of ports can be found here.from_portname = port name. from_country = country the port resides in.from_iso3 = ISO 3-letter country code of the port.to_country = country for which we compute trade that is at-risk of being affected because of a disruption at from_portname.to_iso3 = ISO 3-letter country code of the country for which we compute trade that is at-risk of being affected because of a disruption at from_portname.industry = one of the following: - Animal & Animal Products- Vegetable Products- Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages- Mineral Products- Chemical & Allied Industries- Plastics, Rubber, Leather- Wood & Wood Products- Textiles & Footwear- Stone & Glass - Metals- Machinery & Electrical Equipment- Vehicles & Equipment- Miscellaneous- Total (sum of all of the above)hs_section = corresponding HS section(s)unit = all values are expressed in US Dollars.scale = all values are expressed in units.daily_export_value_at_risk = daily to_country’s exports that is at-risk of being affected because of a disruption at from_portname.daily_import_value_at_risk = daily to_country’s imports that is at-risk of being affected because of a disruption at from_portname.

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This statistic represents the estimated value of international seaborne trade in 2010. Global seaborne trade is believed to account for about 60 percent of all world trade. The global value of seaborne trade was estimated at around nine trillion U.S. dollars in 2010.

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The global maritime system provides the backbone of logistics operations for global supply chains and international trade. This paper aims to develop a unifying global network representation and strategic, system-wide decision model, the Strategic Cargo Routing Model, incorporating both liner and bulk shipping markets to estimate real-world traffic flows and study traffic patterns at the global scale. Specifically, taking a shipper's perspective, containerized and bulk movements are jointly modelled within a mixed-integer linear program that includes inbound, outbound, and transshipment cargo flows at ports. An iterative approach that combines heuristic Gradient Descent and Relax-and-Fix Decomposition methods is proposed for the calibration and solution of the Strategic Cargo Routing Model over a proposed joint liner and bulk services Global Cargo Shipping Network representation. The Global Cargo Shipping Network contains 161 seaports covering 52 countries. It is created from updatable, publicly available, data sources, and all data needed for the network representation are made available. Sufficient network details, as well as data sources and methods for extracting needed inputs, are given to allow others to use and update the network. Using the developed maritime network, mathematical model and calibration-solution methodology, 2018 global maritime traffic flow patterns were estimated. The estimates were found to achieve a 91% fit overall to real-world average annual port throughputs. This strategic model provides support to evaluate future, real-world, worldwide changes, such as increased seaborne trade demand, new routes, shipping infrastructure expansion, and transport policies. * In the data subnetwork X=(0, 1, 2) refers to containerized cargo, liquid bulk and dry bulk respectively. for example, flowX shows flows in subnetworks of X=(0, 1, 2) accordingly. portThrouX.csv shows port throughputs in subnetworks of X=(0, 1, 2) accordingly. **In the uploaded data, the files starting with input... means they are inputs for the model, and other files are outputs. **Note that the uploaded materials can be used based on the uploaded paper "Wenjie Li, Ralph Pundt and Elise Miller-Hooks. (2021). An updatable and comprehensive global cargo maritime network and strategic seaborne cargo routing model for global containerized and bulk vessel flow estimation 2021."

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Global Bulk Carrier Ships market size was $374.24 Billion in 2022 and it is forecasted to reach $412.36 Billion by 2030. Bulk Carrier Ships Industry's Compound Annual Growth Rate will be 4.4% from 2023 to 2030. Factors Impacting on Bulk Carrier Ships Market

Rise in international trading

Trading and transportation across the borders have dramatically increased over the past few decades. Moreover, recent couple of decades have seen mounted growth in world economy. This trade growth is an ultimate result of both technological advancements and reduction in trade barriers. Almost every country is aggressively promoting economic development which is driving world trade to significantly grow every year with an average growth of 6%. International trade allows countries to expand their markets by providing goods and services to other countries. It thus allows countries to extend their markets and get access to items and services that are otherwise be unavailable in their home country. International commerce also leads to the increasing competitiveness. This integration thus helps in raising living standards across the world. Import, export, and entrepot activities are used in international trade. Currently, technological innovation, increased need for a variety of items, and rising desire for authentic products are all driving up international commercial activity. Bulk carrier ships play vital role in supply chain by carrying cargo across oceans linking borders across the globe. It is one of the most cost-effective ways to transfer large amounts of commodities throughout the world. Shipping and seaborne trade have enabled the transition from a world of separated territories to a globally linked community. Hence surging international trade drives the growth of bulk carrier’s market across the globe.

Restraining Factor of Bulk Carrier Ships market

Volatility in transportation cost and tensions in trade across borders may hamper the growth of market Volatility in the prices of fuels impacts pricing of the goods. Further, in case of global rise in the tariffs, high import prices hamper firm's production costs as well as purchasing power of customers. Further, stringent regulations, such as tracking orders, meeting promised timeline, determining liabilities, etc. associated with shipping goods across borders may hinder the growth of market. Moreover, unstable political parameters of any particular country also hamper the cargo shipping market. For instance, Russia-Ukraine war has impacted the shipping industry owing to the rise in the oil prices. Furthermore, ongoing U.S.-China tariff stand-off is also threatening trading across the borders. Hence, geopolitical crisis somehow hinders the growth of bulk carriers ships market.

Current Trends on Bulk Carrier Ships

Technological Improvement

Demand for coal, ores and cement has increased owing to the liberalization in global trade. This demand will keep on increasing and to meet the growing demand, developments have been made to offer solutions that can enable reduction in the transportation cost. Moreover, rise in the environment concern is aiming to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions from ships on marine culture by reducing the fuel consumption. Hence, new regulations have made in designing smaller ship size bulk carrier ship with engines meeting the demand for lower rpm in order to obtain an optimum ship design with highly efficient large propellers.

What is the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Bulk Carrier Ships Market?

Advent of COVID-19 in year 2020 has plunged international trade due to the reduction in production and distribution of goods. Initial period of pandemic has resulted in the double-digit decline of revenue from bulk carrier ship market. However, the second half of pandemic global trade started recovering at relatively faster pace facilitating a V-shaped graph. What are Bulk Carrier Ships?

Carrier ships are the integral link between the production and its consumption all across the globe. It thus plays very crucial part in connecting global economy. It has been estimated that almost 80% of global goods gets transported across oceans via ships. Though air freight is less time consuming, but the cost associated with it is too high in comparison to carrier ships. Further, carrier shipping allows heavy loads, as well as hazardous materials which brings flexibility in tra...

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The evolution of main bulk cargo in international seaborne trade from 1970 through 2021 indicates a general upward trend. In 2021 the world's merchant fleet was loaded with approximately 3.3 billion tons of seaborne main bulk commodities. The term “main bulks” includes iron ore, grain, and coal. Before 2006, the term included bauxite/alumina and phosphate rock as well.

This data contains quantified estimations of seaborne imports and exports (2010-2050) based on four future climate policy-related trade scenarios. The scenarios anticipate volumes and patterns of future international maritime trade consistent with high and low levels of global CO2 mitigation alongside associated climate impacts and socio-economic development hypotheses. The trade scenarios cover nearly all seaborne traded commodities transported by three main vessel types (dry bulk, wet bulk, and containers) and are quantified at country and commodity levels over decadal time steps.

The aim of the Shipping in Changing Climates (SCC) project is to create an enduring, multidisciplinary and independent research community strongly linked to industry and capable of informing the policy making process by developing new knowledge and understanding on the subject of the shipping system, its energy efficiency and emissions, and its transition to a low carbon, more resilient future. It is a multi-university, multi-disciplinary consortium of leading UK academic institutions focused on addressing the interconnected research questions that arise from considering shipping's possible response over the next few decades due to changes in (i) climate (sea level rise, storm frequency), (ii) regulatory climate (mitigation and adaptation policy) and (iii) macroeconomic climate (increased trade, differing trade patterns, higher energy prices). Building on RCUK Energy programme's substantial investment in the Low Carbon Shipping and High Seas projects, this research provides crucial input into long-term strategic planning (commercial and policy) for shipping, in order to enable the sector to transition the next few decades with minimum disruption of the essential global services that it provides. Shipping is a global industry and its challenges must therefore be considered in a global context. The project therefore concentrates on the application of global modelling and analysis for understanding the impact of a changing global climate and associated policies. This is based on three interacting research themes: (1) ship as a system (understanding the scope for greater supply side energy efficiency), (2) trade and transport demand (understanding the trends and drivers for transport demand) and (3) transitions and evolution (understanding transport supply/demand interactions). The research undertaken is both quantitative and qualitative, applying for the first time new data and modelling techniques across the research themes.