World shipping fleet grows by 10.1% in deadweight tonnage during 2010

According to a new research from N.Cotzias Shipping Group, the world’s shipping fleet in service has grown by 10.1% in terms of carrying capacity, and amounts 1.39 billion tones compared to 1.26 billion tones in 2009. The largest year on year increase was evidenced in the dry bulk sector with a 15.6% increase which has pushed the dry bulk carrying capacity to 623mil tons compared to 539 million tons in 2009
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Source: Hellenic Shipping News