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China is the largest "net buyer"! Last year, the world's second-hand trading volume is

  • Author:Revin
  • Release Date:2022-02-22
With the recovery of the shipping industry, last year's new shipbuilding market orders have increased, and the global second-hand ship market has also ushered in the climax of the transaction. The annual trading volume is as high as 1.48 billion gold weight tonnes $ 47 billion, set a history record.



Kraxson pointed out in its latest report, a total of 2507 transaction records on the second-hand ship market last year, with a total of 148 million loaded tons of ships, accounting for 7% of the shipping team, estimated total expenditure more than $ 47 billion, successfully refreshed The $ 46 billion record level created 2007 was previously created.



According to the report, in the past few years, the second-hand ship market has been strong, and the spending exceeds 10 billion US dollars in the first quarter, and the second quarter has reached a record of $ 13 billion, a third quarter of $ 11 billion, a fourth quarter of $ 12 billion. This is not only benefited from the growth of trading, but also because the price of the ship has risen sharply, the 2021 Clarkson's second-hand price index has soared 97%, of which the container ship has risen, up to 168%.



China is the largest "net buyer"! Last year, the world's second-hand trading volume is 47 billion US dollars to create history records.



Last year, the three major ship type second-hand trading volume was at a high level. With ship type, last year's oil ship accounted for 24% of the total transactions of the second-hand ship market, bulk ship accounted for 34%, and the container ship accounted for 29%, and other ships were $ 5.9 billion. More than one-third of transactions came from dry bulk ships, the amount exceeded 16.2 billion US dollars, and the container ship ranked second with $ 13.1 billion, the tanker was $ 11.5 billion, and other ship type was $ 5.9 billion.



Although the market is not good, the second-hand oil ship transaction amount has reached 11.5 billion US dollars, set the fourth high record in history. The second-hand bulk carrier transaction amount exceeds 16.2 billion US dollars, and the historical high record is set.



The most amazing is of course the area of ​​container ships, and the second-hand trading amount exceeds 13.1 billion US dollars, with more than 1.6 million TEUs (accounting for the year of the year), which is three times the highest record level in 2007. It is worth mentioning that Mediterranean Shipping has undoubtedly becoming the most important buyers in the container ship in the last year. The maintenance capacity of the second-hand container ship acquisition of Mediterranean shipping accounted for 27% of the total trading volume of the ship.



Classified by ship, Greece is still the largest buyer, the Greek shipowner last year's second-hand ship spended a $ 7.2 billion, followed by China's shipowner's 5.3 billion US dollars, Norwegian shipowner 2.7 billion US dollars. In addition, Greece is also the largest seller, the Greek shipowner sold $ 99 billion in second-hand ships last year, then the Japanese shipowner is $ 5.9 billion, China's shipowner is 4.2 billion US dollars. In terms of investment amount, China is the largest "net buyer" of second-hand ships, and the ship's expenditure is $ 1.1 billion than the solder income. However, in terms of buying boat, the European shipowner's expenditure ($ 25 billion) is still much higher than the Asian shipowner ($ 16 billion).



In 2022, the second-hand ship market was still active, and in the case of further rising ship prices, the previous 6 weeks before the 6th week of this year had reached $ 6.2 billion. Kraxson expects that this year's second-hand trading amount will reach a new record of $ 53 billion.