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Macro environment

Following 3.3% growth in the global economy during 2023, the International Monetary Fund estimates that the economy will grow 3.2% and 3.3% in 2024 and 2025 respectively. On average, the Europe & Mediterranean, South & Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa regions are forecast to grow faster during... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Demand

We forecast that global container volumes will grow between 0% and 1% in 2023, and between 3% and 4% in both 2024 and 2025. Combined head-haul and regional trade volumes are expected to grow 0.5 percentage points faster than the total volumes in both 2023 and 2025 but in line with total volumes in ... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Demand

We forecast that the crude tanker market will end 2023 with cargo volume growth of between 0.5% and 1.5% but see tonne miles increase between 4.5% and 5.5%. Cargo volume growth is predicted to accelerate to between 2% and 3% in 2024 and moderate to between 1% and 2% in 2025. As sailing distances a... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Demand

We forecast that the crude tanker market will see cargo volume growth of between 2.0% and 3.0% in 2023 and between 3.5% and 4.5% in 2024. As average sailing distances are increasing, we estimate tonne miles growth of between 5.0% and 6.0% in 2023, and between 5.5% and 6.5% in 2024. In the product... Please follow the link to continue reading.

Demand

We have increased the cargo demand forecast in our base case scenario and now estimate that crude tanker volumes will increase by between 1% and 2% in both 2023 and 2024. This is an increase of 1 percentage point in 2023. For the product tanker market, we similarly increase our 2023 cargo demand gro... Please follow the link to continue reading.