Giving owners, operators, traders, investors, analysts and others within the reefer sector a unique insight into the market dynamics and challenges ahead.
This comprehensive report presents:
Evaluation and projections for the global reefer market
Challenges facing operators
Pressure points in the cold chain and implications
Fleet analysis for reefers and reefer containers
Overview of reefer ship costs
Key information
Steps required for the market to adapt to revised customer demands
Evaluation of cold chain logistics
Influences shaping reefer trade logistics
Historical and projected trade in reefer commodities - including: Bananas, Citrus fruits, Deciduous fruits, Exotic fruits, Meat and poultry, Dairy products, Fish
Key summary analysis of the reefer ship fleet and the reefer container sector
Evaluation of reefer ship costs - including: Manning costs, Insurance costs, R&M costs, Other operating costs, Voyage costs, Acquisition costs
Concise reefer freight market summary
Drewry Shipping Consultants' report, Reefer Shipping and Logistics - Re-engineering the Cold Chain, arrives at a time when reefer shipping is at a crossroads. Latterly, the reefer fleet has been declining, as the rate of scrapping vessels has overtaken the virtually negligible orderbook. A crucial influence has been the "drift to containerisation"
While this is affecting the reefer/reefer container modal split, the entire sector is now having to face up to a new challenge - the changing logistics of the cold chain - which demands that reefer operators become more client-focused and develop their service offerings for specific customer needs, as in other shipping sectors.
This latest report focuses on the changing pattern in the cold chain, which has seen the demise of many producer boards and the growing prominence of retail chains and supermarkets. This brings with it business attitudes and policies familiar to many in the retail and logistics sectors but, to date, largely unknown within conventional reefer shipping.
Reefer trade - growth potential
Global and seaborne trade in reefer commodities - allowing for the occasional cyclical and regional "blip" - has been increasing steadily and there is every sign that this trend will continue.
Reefer Shipping and Logistics - Re-engineering the Cold Chain gives the most up to date insight into global and seaborne trade focusing on all the main commodity groupings.
Information provided includes seaborne trade matrices for the three most recent years for which data is available. The report also provides alternative case forecasts extending as far as 2010.
Evaluating the supply side
By end-2002, the reefer fleet numbered 1,253 ships with a combined capacity of 348.9 million cu.ft. Furthermore, it is developing a "mid-age" profile. The reefer fleet now provides around 40% of nominal reefer capacity (the reefer slot contribution could provide over 60%). Ten years ago the proportions were reversed.
Within this report the existing reefer fleet is given a statistical overview. In addition, the newbuilding market is analysed, along with developments in the reefer and container equipment sectors in order to offer some insight into the reefership of the future.
Reefer shipping economics I
In the past two-three years, the freight market has not been kind to reefer shipowners. The future is not without hope however, but the continued incursions from the reefer box sector mean the reefer market is no longer in full control of its own destiny.
Reefer Shipping and Logistics - Re-engineering the Cold Chain offers insight and indicative data on ship operating costs (manning, insurance, repairs and maintenance)
The source of the intelligence
This is a major new report drawing on the vast experience and databases of Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd, the advice and input of other specialist research sources and views and opinions from reefer and reefer containership operators, primary distribution specialists in the retail sector and terminal operators. The report also offers those engaged in developing cold chain logistics an insight into the make-up of reefer shipping and its cost base. In addition, the report should prove invaluable to analysts and others who find the reefer commodity trades and their shipping and logistics within their portfolio.
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