Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Maritime Transport Services

Through our study we want to approach some aspects of maritime transport services market in thecurrent global crisis. This approach takes into account, firstly in determining how transportation fleet reacts tothe evolution of world trade and on the other hand to clarify the tendency of increasing transport capacityeven in crisis conditions. Therefore we intend to address in detail the evolution of the global fleet and worldtrade. Research conducted by econometric models at different times, as fleet capacity is a reaction at differenttimes, due to a production cycle of about two years in shipbuilding. I used the software Eviews because itallows easy data processing.