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While the oil tanker market (despite an increase in demolition) continued to be burdened by overcapacity and low freight rates, the LNG tanker market is booming

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ISL expert Arne Gehlhaar gives insights into "SELIS" and "Binntelligent"

DocksTheFuture (DtF) is a thirty-months running project under the Horizon2020 programme tackling the questions on ‘how does the port of the future look like in 2030 and which chal-lenges the EU port sector has to cope with’.

The RWI/ISL Container Throughput Index fell to 133.9 in February according to the flash-estimate. This is the fourth-largest decline monitored so far.

Invited by the German Committee for Sustainability Research and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), experts from practice, research and science from the fields port management, ship operations and environmental research met in Hamburg on 12./13. March 2019 for an interdisciplinary forum on „Climate shipping pollution: piecemeal regulation for different objectives? Health, climate, environmental and socioeconomic implications and challenges for green shipping propulsion”.

Even though the capacity growth of the world merchant fleet was only 2.6 % in 2018 – the smallest increase during the last 15 years, freight rates and ship prices have come down to very low levels.

In February 2019, the ISL continues the much acclaimed series "ISL Shipping Statistics and Market Review" with the current issue.

How will the enlargement of the Panama Canal affect the future development of container fleets?
Which size classes of container ships are still fit for the future and which are not?
To what extent will trade lanes be influenced by this? - These and other questions are addressed by the ISL in the new position paper entitled "Impact of the Panama Canal, development of the fully cellular container ship fleet and cascade effect".

For the next five years the ISL will be a member of the Digital Transport and Logistics Forum (DTLF) of the EU.