Dry Bulk Shipping Market Outlook

Dry bulk demand, particularly iron ore, coking and thermal coal demand from China and India continue to reach new records. The recovery of freight rates from a catastrophic collapse in 2008 has seen fixtures for capesize, panamax, handysize and handymax vessels rebound and remain firm. China’s appetite for steel-making raw materials is expected to peak by 2020. India growing deficits of raw materials can only be met with growing imports.

Record grain crops in Australia, Canada, and corn in the USA will provide further impetus to rising dry bulk rates.

The Dry Bulk Shipping Market Outlook will be held in the backdrop of a rising market still showing signs of extreme volatility. Recovery in many European markets is slow and many new vessels entering the market are adding further to competition.  The insight delivered from leading analysts will ensure industry participants are fully informed of the most up to date commodities data as well as new shipbuilding activity, fleet projections & freight rate movements and finance / credit issues.

The 8th Annual Dry Bulk Shipping Market Outlook, 11th in the series, will address all of the above issues as well as comprehensively cover one of the most rapidly developing markets in the world today – the Freight Derivatives Market, which enables market participants to minimize future risk exposure in such a volatile market.

This is the one place to gain competitive insight into the European Shipping and commodities markets and gain strong strategic insight into the economic outlook moving forward.


By attending this event, you will meet all the key luminaries of this dramatically shifting market in one place at one time.