EIRP Proceedings, Vol 7 (2012)

Abstract

Through our study we want to approach some aspects of maritime transport services market in the current global crisis. This approach takes into account, firstly in determining how transportation fleet reacts to the evolution of world trade and on the other hand to clarify the tendency of increasing transport capacity even in crisis conditions. Therefore we intend to address in detail the evolution of the global fleet and world trade. Research conducted by econometric models at different times, as fleet capacity is a reaction at different times, due to a production cycle of about two years in shipbuilding. I used the software Eviews because it allows easy data processing.