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Monday, September 23, 2013


7:04 AM
Worst shipping crisis' over by 2014: Nordea BankPRINT |EMAIL THIS ARTICLE[STOCKHOLM] Nordea
Bank, Scandinavia's biggest lender, said the shipping industry will next year begin to recover from its
worst crisis on record as global demand picks up and freight rates and asset prices recover.While
"2013 will be another tough year in most segments, sometime in 2014 we'll probably start seeing a
gradual improvement in the broader market," Hans Kjelsrud, the Oslo-based head of Nordea's
shipping unit, said in a Sept 17 telephone interview. "Once we get through this year, deliveries of
new ships will be a lot lower. We believe 2014 will be better than 2013 and that 2015 will be better
than 2014."Nordea, the world's fifth-biggest shipping bank, has remained loyal to an industry
suffering from its worst-ever slump as other European banks, including Commerzbank, have pulled
out. The industry, now in its fifth year of crisis, has suffered from slumping demand and overcapacity
in the wake of Europe's debt crisis and from low freight rates, high fuel prices and slumping asset
values.The ClarkSea Index, a measure of industry-wide earnings, has averaged US$9,187 a day this
year, the lowest since 1990, according to shipbroker Clarkson plc. The fleets of dry-bulk carriers and
supertankers are both the most oversupplied since the 1980s, according to Clarkson and Fearnley
Consultants, a maritime research company in Oslo. There are now signs of improvement as the
global economy picks up,

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