关键词: 全球经济, 新冠肺炎疫情, 航运市场, 市场订单, 交付量, 绿色, 智能

Abstract: This article reviews the world economy, shipping and shipbuilding markets in 2020, and prospects the markets in 2021. The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic swept the world in 2020, and the global economy showed negative growth as a whole, resulting in the widely different shipping market segments. Except for the hot container transportation market at the end of the year, other markets were all downward. The overall delivery of the new ships has fallen sharply with approximately 31% decrease year-on-year. There was a large-scale cancellation of orders in the market, and only the offshore engineering market was basically good. Affected by the COVID-19, the new shipbuilding market declined about 11% year-on-year. And the bulk carrier was the only ship type with increased delivery in 2020. In 2021, the world economy is expected to rebound sharply year-on-year, the demand of the shipping market will be stronger than its supply, and the overall market situation will be better than that in 2020. Considering the short-term impact of the COVID-19, it is expected that the world shipping market will gradually become rational. The new ship orders of main ship types are steadily recovering in the long-term equilibrium direction, while green and intelligence are still the general direction in future.

Key words: global economy, novel coronavirus pneumonia, shipping market, market orders, delivery, green, intelligent