Provision of maritime fleet data for the Review of Maritime Transport for UNCTAD (SC 1000273733)

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UNCTAD produces since 1968 the “Review of Maritime Transport” (RMT), which is complemented by on-line statistics and on-line maritime country profiles. The RMT covers a range of shipping and sea-borne trade data, notably annual fleet statistics on ship registration, owning, building, ordering and scrapping.. UNCTAD procurement is handled by UNOG Procurement. For details concerning UNOG Procurement, please refer to its website at: http://www.unog.ch Brief Description of Requirements: UNOG intends to establish a Contract on behalf of UNCTAD for 1 year with the possibility of extension for four (4) futher one-year periods at the sole discretion of UNOG, starting on 1 April 2017. To perpetuate UNCTAD publications’ level of excellence, economists, shipping analysts and statisticians need to access the most reliable and well-known sources of information. Data supplied under the contract will be used internally in the context of analytical work, and it will be reproduced in the form of summary tables in UNCTAD publications, including the RMT, with due acknowledgement to the source. The monitoring of development in the maritime field and seaborne trade, requires access to reliable, consistent, detailed and up-to-date data from the most relevant sources. Data should be of high quality and updated as soon as possible after the official release of information. Data on the fleet at a point in time needs to be provided as of 1 January 2017. Data on building and scrapping, i.e. data that covers not a point in time but a period, should be annual, covering the total of 2016. As updated data becomes available, latest information should be accessible on-line. All countries of world should be covered and the underlying data should be on the level of individual vessels.

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