Shipbuilding Sector

Shipbuilding Economics (SHIPS)

MSI's Shipbuilding Service (SHIPS) is a fully interactive, menu-driven modelling system, forecasting newbuild contracting volumes and prices across all shipping sectors. It is a highly effective support tool for shipyards, industry suppliers and shipowners and provides:

• A platform to access easily and quickly historic and forecasted data for almost 1000 key annual timeseries
• A powerful analysis and simulation tool that allows the use of alternative assumptions to test market sensitivity to key risks by modifying a wide range of macroeconomic, supply and shipyard cost variables

The SHIPS Model provides historical and forecast annual timeseries data from 1980 for:

• Trade and employment in each sector of cargo and passenger shipping
• Required net new tonnage based on incremental cargo/passenger demand and fleet renewal requirements
• New contracts, orderbooks, cancellations, slippage, deliveries and fleets by vessel type and size
• Shipyard costs, capacity and operating rates by major building region
• Average shipyard profitability and prices by vessel size and type

The shipping sectors covered by SHIPS include:

• Dry Cargo (Dry Bulk Carriers, Containerships, General Cargo, Reefers)
• Liquid Cargo (Crude Tankers, Product Tankers, Chemical Tankers)
• Gas Carriers (LPG Carriers, LNG Carriers)
• Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo Cargo, RoPax, Car Carrier)
• Passenger Ships (principally Cruise Ships)

The data can be reported in Gross Tonnes, Compensated Gross Tonnes, Number of Ships and Deadweight.

SHIPS is written on a Microsoft Excel® platform, and updates containing MSI's latest forecasts are distributed quarterly via an easily installable Microsoft Windows® installation package to coincide with the release of our quarterly SHIPS market report. It is available as an annual subscription containing four updates a year, distributed via email.

Please contact us to arrange an online demonstration.