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Getting a grip on world trends de? ning the maritime sector can be challenging. Resources such as annual Platou Report strive to make it easy, delivering authoritative, comprehensive yet easy to sift market insights and overview statistics. Find on these two pages the statistical overview that our editorial team found most compelling. For the full report, simply visit www.platou.com.

Source: The Platou Report 2015, RS Platou Group, www.platou.com

World Fleet Development (Mill.dwt)

StartTankersChemical Bulk Combined Others Total carriers carriers carriers 200529525.7318.711.6200.5851.5 2006317.726.9340.711.6213.3910.1 2007334.729363.711.2232.5971.2 2008352.331.7387.811.2253.51036.5 200936934414.710.4273.11101.3 2010396.235.8456.29.6294.91192.6 2011413.136.1533.86.8309.91299.8 201243936.5617.1*326.31418.9 2013460.536.6682.5*334.11513.7 2014471.336.3718.7343.61569.8 2015478.436.5750.3366.71631.8 (Source: The Platou Report 2015, RS Platou Group • www.platou.com)

To put it simply, Bulk Carrier supply far outstrips cargo demand

Orderbook (Mill.dwt)

StartTankersChemical Bulk Combined Others Total carriers carriers carriers 20057211.660.6N/A56.2200.4 200676.53.361.4N/A68.1209.3 2007128.71178.9N/A80298.6 2008147.719216.1N/A105.7491.9 200916418.4286.3N/A92.2564.3 2010120.613.9268.73.470.5477.1 2011113.49.7246.5-53.7426 2012751.4191.5-53.7321.5 201349.41.6105.4 54.6211 201451.42.1117.8 67.1238.5 201563.43.9146 63276.2 (Source: The Platou Report 2013, RS Platou Group • www.platou.com)

Some owners are starting to ? ip Bulk Carrier newbuilds to Tanker newbuilds

New Orders (Mill.dwt)

StartTankersChemical Bulk Combined Others Total carriers carriers carriers 2005240.916.9 25.967.7 200674.76.836.7 25.7143.8 200742.110.1158.33.452.4266.3 200847.42.790.4 20.4160.9 200910.30.833.6 1.546.2 201038.51.682.3 10.8133.2 20119.20.527.9 25.763.2 201214.20.917.8 11.144 2013311.273 29.8135 201424.1166.9 21.2113.2 (Source: The Platou Report 2015, RS Platou Group • www.platou.com) www.marinelink.com 67

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