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Percentage of minibulkers at least 30 years old.

EU transport infrastructure upgrading requirement for 2014- 2020.

Shipping industry to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050.

The three-month LIBOR reached 2.34% in mid-April 2018, 1.16 same period 2017.

Of the world’s undiscovered hydrocarbons under the Arctic seabed.

Last year London generated $9.26Bn in Premium income, a one-third share of the global marine insurance market’s total.

Tonnes of global shipping cargo forecast by IHS per year by 2025.

Percentage of annual global scrapping demand that China can handle.

What China is spending on the fourth phase of the Yangshan deepwater port.

Cost of Russia’s natural gas pipeline to China.

Number of jobs in South Africa derived from Shipping in 2010.

New car carrier orders needed each year to maintain current capacity.

Number of lifeboat drills conducted on Titanic’s maiden voyage.

Years Lloyd’s has been in the Maritime insurance business.

Number of new homes planned near Amsterdam’s port by 2040.

People employed in Norway’s Maritime cluster, including 20000 seafarers.

Days saved using the freight train from inland China to central Europe compared with ships.

Percentage of the world’s copper produced by Chuquicamata, Chile’s largest copper mine.

Total of 20 largest 2013 losses across the insurance industry(not including natural catastrophes)

Number of websites and films dedicated to Titanic, along with hundreds of books.

China’s share of world iron ore imports.

Ranking of Turkey’s shipbreaking sector with 280 ships scrapped in 2013 at a combined 850,000ldt.

Estimate of gap between energy demand and supply in Germany by 2020, equivalent to 10-15 power plants.

Total demolition in million tons; 24.08 in 2013, 18.8 in 2014, 19.7 in 2015, 25.06 in 2016, 16.8 in 2017.

The number of boxes that the largest container ship can carry, which would hold 746 million bananas. This would be one banana for each person in Europe.

Percentage of coal traded globally, 85% is consumed by producing countries.

Estimated daily loss of business if Mississippi River is closed.

North Dakota is the second largest US state for oil output.

Shares in South Korean shipbuilding companies have plunged by this much thus far this year.

Price per tonne of steam coal on the international market, a 30% drop in a year.

Average growth 2017-21 in container trade 4.2% and container ship fleet 3.1%.

Historic high charter hire for Karoline N of Neu Gas, one of just four VLGCs that can transit the present Panama Canal .

Year in which the word ‘ergonomics’, meaning the science of work, was first used.

Vessel transits through the Strait of Gibraltar each year.

Share of Greek GDP attributed to shipping sector.

Time taken for a plastic bottle to break down.

Percentage of Nigeria’s economy that depends on Maritime transport.

Shipping insurance sector’s capacity to cover traditional energy risks.

Philippines inter-island trade carried on ro-ro vessels.

Percentage of seafarers serving on Japanese ships sourced from the Philippines. More than 28% of the world’s seafarers come from that country alone.

of Shipping accidents attributed by studies to human error.

Current differential of about USD230/tonne, beyween high-sulphur bunker and low-sulphur distillate fuel may 2018.

Percentage of world Merchant fleet controlled by European companies, according to the European Community Shipowners’ Associations.

Avreage growth 2017-21 in coal trade 2.8% and ores,iron,and manganese trade 2.9% and bulker fleet 1.5%.

Only this many of 12.000 companies classified as ‘foreign’ in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone have headquarters outside Greater China.

Temperature that some Arctic transits have to contend with.

Scheduled opening date of Europe’s first dedicated port terminal for offshore wind turbines at Bremerhaven.

Length of dedicated sewage system that prevents wastewater generated by Barcelona’s port from being discharged into its basins.

Shipping industry consuming about 300 million tonnes of high-sulphur fuel a year, sums about usd69 billion in extra fuel costs annually.

People employed in EU’s marine equipment sector.

2011 was the second most expensive year form arine insurance, after 2005.

Members of the International Energy Agency now that Estonia has joined.

Bangladesh, the fourth largest rice producer, has lifted an export ban.

Of the world’s undiscovered hydrocarbons under the Arctic seabed.

Annual investment needed to supply the world’s energy needs, according to International Energy Agency.

Turkey’s income generated in Istanbul.

South Africa’s navy has just this many vessels, and only a fraction of them are operational.