Research Article

Structural Analysis of Shipping Fleet Capacity

Table 3

Estimated results of the SEM for container ship.

Simultaneous equations/DependentVariablesCoefficientStd. ErrorProb.Adjusted R-squareDurbin-Watson stat

Equation (1)
Neworder
Constant-2862.771436.5790.0000.7801.914
Trade0.0770.0180.000
Fleet-0.4870.1520.003
NBPI14.51010.7170.185
Orderbook-0.3710.0510.000
AR(1)-0.7660.1620.000

Equation (2)
Fleet
Constant624.384721.7570.3930.9951.990
Neworder(-3)a0.0670.0780.395
NBPI-61.2435.3280.000
BunkerPrice-0.9770.7290.189
Trade0.1290.0040.000
AR(1)0.4870.2180.032

Equation (3)
Demolition
Constant35.462285.6700.9020.7402.127
HighAge-0.22310.6150.983
Laws15.78689.8840.862
Fleet0.0340.0120.006
Neworder-0.0720.0300.021
CRU-1.0860.7410.152

Note: (-3) is the three-year lagged variable of Neworder.