1. Irish Maritime Development Office, Ireland Glenn Murphy, Director Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) Central Statistics Office Conference 2009 “Shipping, the invisible hand moving the Irish economy around the globe” 11 th November 2009

2. Overview Key shipping indicators IMDO data analysis. Global shipping markets Shipping + Port traffic performance –Lift on/Lift off market (Lo/Lo) –Roll on/Roll off market (ro/ro) –Bulk sector Trend data.

3. Analysis Published data Shipping Sector New Services General Public academics Analysis Department Of Transport Primary Sources All Ports on IslandShipping Lines

4. Annual Irish Transport Economist (Volume 6 – April 2009) 12 Shipping Reviews – Ireland to European Markets (2008) Quarterly publication of traffic data. Route and Competition Analysis

5. Container Capacity in Market

6. Container Operators

7. Container Capacity in the Irish Market 23% reduction in available capacity compared to same period 2008

8. GLOBAL SHIPPING MARKET

9. TOP TRADING PARTNERS Source CSO

11. 1785 depression 1902-10 depression 1930 depression 1970 depression 1957-63 depression 1980 recession 1999 recession

12. The Supply Cycle Deliveries 61 m dwt in 1976 Deliveries 242 m dwt in 2008 Last phase of 1970s scrapping! Million Dwt Shipyards expand to replace the ships built in the 1970s boom 30Year Cycle

13. 11,770 670 3,757 2,415

15. Irish Container Market LOLO volume

17. MONTHLY LOLO TREND 134,149TEU’s 80,141TEU’s

19. Container Market RORO Volume

20. ROI & NI RORO TRAFFIC -21% 224,649 217,743 178,875 186,793

21. RORO TRAFFIC 157,941 115,051

22. BULK MARKET Dry/Liquid/Break

23. Dry Bulk 1,649,876 583,667

24. DRY BULK

25. Break Bulk 204,017 54,133

26. Source CSO

27. BREAK BULK

28. Liquid Bulk 1,365,101 708,764

29. OIL PRICES $38.60 $131.69 $72.53

30. Summary Shipping highly cyclical Rate of decline easing in all market segments. Economy appears to be moving out of recession Very large volume correction Threat of inflation from higher oil prices over winter months. Competitive, frequent shipping services have an important role to play in economic recovery.