Papers & Reports

Singapore 2007

• The statistical approach for monitoring maritime safety used and developed by EMSA
• International Trade Data System, Homeland security and port operations, US update
• National Statistics Quality Review of UK maritime statistics
• Seaborne traffic in the Malacca strait
• Determinants of container freight rates: estimated models for Spanish exports
• The state of tanker industry
• Main demand drivers for liquid and dry bulk shipping in Asia
• Standard measurements: roro-unit & economic unit. Progress report.
• What do we know about UK seafarers? A review of developments in the past decade
• The WTO panel rulings and the elimination of operating subsidy from shipbuilding
• Who has been ordering what and where?
• Implications of the present newbuilding activity - a few examples
• Yard capacity & expansion in China, S Korea & Japan - make it or break it!
• Statistics as facilitator for more environmentally friendly transports?
• Problems related to cargo statistics prepared by ports
• Update from European Sea Ports Organisation Statistics Committee
• Eurostat general maritime update plus ports data availability and quality
• Fire and Explosions - Casualty Statistics