This document summarizes a presentation given by Torvald Klaveness on iron ore exports and coal imports in India and their impact on shipping markets. It provides an overview of historical trade flows between India, China, and Indonesia involving iron ore exports from India and coal imports into India. It notes that India's ban on iron ore exports in 2012 disrupted this balanced trade, leading coal imports to increase significantly. It predicts coal imports into India will continue growing substantially to fuel new power plants as domestic coal production stalls. Overall, the shipping industry will see increased coal shipments from Indonesia to India to replace lost iron ore export volumes.
Iron Ore & Coal Trade in India Impact of Shipping Markets
1. Iron Ore Exports & Coal
Imports in India – Impact
of Shipping Markets
Mumbai, 27 Nov 2013
2. Agenda
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Introduction to Torvald Klaveness
Iron Ore & Coal Trade in India – Total Picture
A fine balance & then came the Ban
The trade as it stands today
Impact of this change on Shipping
The future - Coal Imports – Standing tall and
all alone!
• Nothing is Impossible!
3. Torvald Klaveness
A leading dry bulk company for more than 65
years
• Founded in 1946 by Mr. Torvald Klaveness
• Owned and managed by Trond Harald
Klaveness
• A history of partnerships and joint ventures
• Industry focus with emphasis on transparency
• Sharing our knowledge with our partners
• Entrepreneurship and innovation in focus
4. Torvald Klaveness
- taking the pulse on the global economy every day
Norway
Head office
90 employees
Shanghai, China
6 employees
Manila, Philippines
19 employees
Singapore
29 employees
More than 2000 transactions per year
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5. Exports of Iron Ore from India
Source: Bloomberg / Klaveness Research
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6. Imports of Coal into India
Source: Bloomberg / Klaveness Research
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7. Impact of Thermal Coal Imports
Source: Bloomberg / Klaveness Research
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8. The Iron Ore – Coal Equation –
Quarterly
Source: Bloomberg / Klaveness Research
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9. The Iron Ore – Coal Equation Annual
Source: Bloomberg / Klaveness Research
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10. The Trade Flows before the Iron
Ore Export Ban
• Healthy Balance between Coal Imports and
Iron Ore Exports
• The Golden Triangle
– Iron Ore ex WC India to China – 28 days!
– Ballast ex North China to Indonesia – 9 days!
– Coal ex Indonesia to WC India – 25 days!
– Perfect Trade Flow
• Question: Which was the Front Haul??
11. The Trade Flows today – An
Imperfect World!
• Negligible Iron Ore movements and rising Coal
imports!
• The Not-So Golden Rectangle
– Ballast ex North China to Indonesia – 9 days!
– Coal ex Indonesia to WC India – 25 days!
– What next after WC India?? Ballast back to
Indonesia?? Other Possibilities??
• Breaking of the Symbiant Circle!
12. Diving Deeper into Coal Imports
• Seasonality over the Quarters
– Q2 is the busiest quarter
• The Shipment Size for Coal Imports
– Cape Size is the biggest beneficiary of improved
port infrastructure
• ECI v WCI
– Seasonal Patterns
– Ports v Anchorage – Influence on Parcel Size
13. Iron Ore Export – Seasonal
Variation
Source: Bloomberg / Klaveness Research
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16. Impact of the breaking of the
Symbiant Circle!
• Front Haul became Back Haul and Vice Versa!
• Impact on the counterparties – Survival of the
fittest!
• Importance of Minor Bulks – Salt, Bauxite &
Grain!
• Looking outward for return cargoes – PG,
South Africa & even EC South America!
17. The Supramax Market & Routes
Source: Baltic Exchange / Klaveness Research
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18. The Supramax Routes – The
Correlations
Source: Baltic Exchange / Klaveness Research
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19. The Counterparties!
• Insane market fixtures ex India during the
boom period – Port Melbourne!
• Shock Therapy – Disappearance & Defaults
• Minority players have emerged as Majority
market movers
• Switching between the commodities
20. After Iron Ore??
• Minor Bulks – Seasonal and biased towards
Supramaxes
• From WC India – Persian Gulf??
– Piracy??
– Regular Flow of cargoes
– Not a Symbiant Circle
• From EC India – South Africa
– Reality – Ballast back to Indonesia!
21. Indian power generation increases steadily
- Led by coal power growth
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Coal power growth
– Avg. – 7.9%
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Volatile hydro
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Gas/oil non competitive
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Source: Nena
Total power growth
– Avg. - 5.6%
Power use per capita only
1/5 of China!
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22. Tremendeous growth in Indian coal fired
power plants
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Plants under construction
– 90 GW mid 2012
– Probably some 88 GW
mid 2013
– Equivalent to some
• 200-250 Mt coal use
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Advanced development
– 40-50 GW
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Source: Nena
Tremendous growth 20072012
Growth set to continue
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23. Nearly all new coal power plants run on
imported coal
Imported % of coal consumption
Domestic coal output stalling
– Uncertain future growth
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Coal power capacities are
increasing fast
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Source: Nena
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Import growth «must»
continue ….or even
accelerate in absolute terms
– 20-30+ Mt/y (30 Mt last
12 mnths)
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24. India Coal Imports to rebound sharply
Source:Klaveness Research/Macquarie
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25. The Future Ahead
• Acceleration in Coal Imports
• Differentials between East and West Coast
India
• More Seasonal Variance and Volatility
• Minor Bulks – Price Sensitivity
• A China in the making! – One way traffic!
• Iron Ore coming back??
• A small step for man…
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a pleasure to be invited to speak on the Impact on Shipping Markets of Iron Ore Exports and Coal Imports in the Indian Market. I would like to thank the organisers for giving me this opportunity.
I would like to quickly go through the Agenda that I intend to follow during my presentation. I will start with a brief introduction to Torvald Klaveness, the company that I work for and which has been deeply involved with the Indian Shipping market. I want to then present a total picture of the Iron Ore Exports and the Coal Imports – the way they were and the way they are today. I will discuss the pre-iron ore ban scenario, where there was a good balance between Imports and Exports and then the Ban was put in place. I will then look at the trade as it stands today and look at the impact this change has on shipping and freight. I will illustrate the impact through predominantly example of supramax freight rates. Then we have to look at the future and see how we expect Coal imports to grow continuously and in huge volumes, dominating the Indian Bulk trade. Finally on a positive note, I hope the ban can be overturned soon and what seems impossible is absolutely possible – Nothing is impossible!
Torvald Klaveness is a 67 year company and a well recognised one with a history of partnerships, JVs. The values are clear and transparent. It is still a family company with Mr Trond Klaveness being personally active in managing the company.
Klaveness has offices in 4 countries with the head office in Oslo. Asian operations have expanded substantially with Singapore office growing from 3 employees in 2007 when it was started to 29 employees today. We are today active players in Supramaxes, Panamaxes and Post Panamaxes throughout the world.
Let us start with looking at where the Iron Ore exports have gone over the last 7 years. The boom was already in place by 2007 and as you can see the export volumes continued to crow up until 2010 and then the ban came into place and we saw the volume disappearing as the exports plummeted from 33 Mill Mts in Q1 2010 to 3 Mill Mts on Q1 2013 – 91 percent drop over this period.
During the same period, Coal imports have grown from 17 Mill mts in Q1 2009 to 40 Mill Mts in !Q 2013. Till the ban came into place, the imports and exports were quite finely balanced, if not biased towards exports. Things were going well both for importers and exporters.
From being a minor importer of coal at the beginning of the new century, the country market share of the global market (specially for Thermal coal) has increase steadily from 3 percent to 17 percent.