IHS Fairplay Shipping Markets Forecast

IHS Fairplay Shipping Markets Forecast is a bi-monthly series of hardcopy reports covering the passenger, liquid and dry cargo markets. IHS Fairplay consultants derive these forecasts from researching the dynamic interaction of business environment, market and transport demand factors. Each publication focuses on one market—passenger, dry or liquid—with the aim of demonstrating that market's earning potential over the next five years while giving an overview of the other two markets. Clients can either subscribe to the full series or choose a select market forecast. Each forecast is published twice per year on a rotating schedule:

• Passenger markets: January, July 
• Liquid cargo markets: March, September 
• Dry cargo markets: May, November

IHS Fairplay Shipping Markets Forecast key features include:

• Easy-to-read format 
• Graphs: macro-economic data, fleet, freight rates 
• Email distribution on the second Friday of alternate months 
• Links to additional downloads from IHS website

For clients interested in the detailed data that feeds our forecasts, please consult our online daily data service, IHS Fairplay Shipping Markets. Subscribers to this service receive the latest fixtures, ship sales, newbuildings and market news, including access to a searchable, online database of over 83,000 ships and 200,000 fixtures.

IHS Fairplay Shipping Markets Forecast enables you to:

• Evaluate the business environment of the passenger, liquid and dry cargo markets as well as earnings potential over the next five years 
• Gain a visual understanding of trends and indicators affecting each market 
• Plan business decisions and investments in light of extended forecasts

IHS Fairplay Shipping Markets Forecast is published on a bi-monthly, rotational schedule. Clients can subscribe to all three forecasts or choose one or two specific forecasts. Example of topics covered in the three available market forecasts include:

Passenger markets

• Impact of population and average income changes on the business environment and passenger demand 
• Impact of trade changes on cargo ferry sector 
• Cruise, ferry and ro-ro (ro-ro vessels providing short sea services for the carriage of trucks and trailers) markets

Liquid cargo markets

• Impact of economic growth and trade, both global and regional, on the business environment 
• Crude oil, oil products, chemicals, LNG and LPG tankers and freight rate index forecasts

Dry cargo markets

• Impact of economic growth and trade, both global and regional, on the business environment 
• Container, reefer, general cargo, ro-ro and cargo ferry 
• Freight rate index forecasts

IHS Fairplay holds the largest maritime database in the world, evolved from The Lloyd's Register of Ships which has been continuously published since 1764.

With IHS Fairplay you can:

• Track live ship positions with unrivalled AIS coverage
• Identify every merchant and military ship
• Contact 145,000 ship owners, operators and managers
• Receive insights for profitable, efficient and safe shipping
• Plan a port call with ease

With extensive ship, movement, casualty, company, port and news databases, as well as research, forecasting and consultancy services, IHS Fairplay has developed a range of high quality products and services that are unique to the industry.

As the sole originating authority for assigning and validating IMO Ship and Company numbers, IHS Fairplay's databases are able to guarantee a level of comprehensiveness no-one else can.