Maritime Data News
EUROSTAT: RECENT PUBLICATIONS
NEW: A new section of more user friendly tables (maritime transport - main annual results) is available on the web site of Eurostat.
On the Eurostat website the following statistical products related to maritime transport are available:
Recent Publications:
New Publication Statistics in Focus (SIF) publication "Maritime Transport of Goods and Passengers 1997-2008" is available on the Eurostat website:
http://www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat
The title of the SIF is "General economic crisis hits European port activity"
Short Sea Shipping of goods - 2000-2007 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-09-058/EN/KS-SF-09-058-EN.PDF
Please note that the publication data in focus (DIF) "maritime transport of goods - 3rd quarter 2008" is available on eurostat web site http://www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat
The publication also contains a first estimate for 2008Q4 (see graph 3) at EU level.
Data in Focus (DiF) Maritime Transport of goods and passengers 1997-2007
This publication contains Italian data and EU-27 results for 2007.
Statistics in focus (SiF) - Maritime Transport of Goods and Passengers 1997-2007
(Release date: 30th January 2009)
Data in Focus (DiF) - Maritime transport of goods - 2nd quarter 2008 (Release date: 28 April 2009)
Statistical Book - Panorama of Transport (Release date: 25 May 2009)
All transport publications online (Regularly updated)
Database online: Transport database online (Regularly updated)
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COSCO hosts the World Shipping (China) Summit 2009 - Nov 12th & 13th
This year the event will be held in Qingdao, a beautiful coastal city sount of Dalian. IMSF are proud to support the summit and encourage our members to participate. Please contact the IMSF Secretary if you are interested in attending as there may be special discounts available. An invitation letter from the organisers will be posted here shortly. The advance programme can be downloaded here.
Measuring Global Seaborne Trade
New research from Lloyd's MIU unveiled at the IMSF conference in New Orleans in May 2009 for the first time attempts to provide a systematic bottom up calculation of global seaborne trade measured in terms of both volume (metric tonnes) and value (US $). Download the full report and see how the 90% of world trade by sea myth has been exposed.
NEW FROM OXFORD ECONOMICS
The latest report from Oxford Economics, 'The Economic Contribution of Ports to the UK Economy'. Follow this link to Download the full report - The Economic Contribution of Ports to the UK Economy
NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM CHAMBER OF SHIPPING
Visit the Chamber of Shipping's website to review latest publications including studies and the annual review. www.british-shipping.org/publications/