Shipping Finance Annual (14 Revised edition)

"The Shipping Finance Annual" is one of Euromoney's best sellers and is now in its 13th edition.

The Annual presents a global picture of the major issues at the forefront of the ship finance industry.

Introductory articles for this edition include topics such as FPSOs from a legal perspective, performance risk from a financiers of LNG carriers perspective, new developments in OPA, and freight futures.

These are followed by individual country articles from leading maritime nations focusing on law, finance, insurance and registration.

Shipping nations include: Belgium, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, the UK, the US and Yemen.

Topics discussed are as diverse as ship mortgages and tonnage tax, to leasing and new EU shipping policy.An extensive appendix features statistics from three leading maritime data specialists: Drewry Shipping Consultants provide data on the current ship market for newbuildings, sales, and second-hand values; Dealogic provides league tables for the ship finance market showing who is lending money to who; and Lloyds Register-Fairplay provides a sneak preview of its World Fleet Statistics, giving a breakdown of the distribution of the world merchant fleet by country of registration, country of nationality, ship type, and the leading shipowning groups. The Annual is completed by a shipping directory of approximately 950 contacts in finance, law, insurance, and ship management/building.