With respect to the arbitrage support for WTI oil, we view global oil consumption patterns to be relatively intact despite recent slowdowns in emerging market economies (especially India and China).
"A leaner, more responsive and more productive shipbuilding and offshore construction business will be better placed to take advantage of emerging market opportunities and to counter the cyclical nature of ship-ordering patterns, " he said.
Because of the growing importance of such skills in the emerging information society, industrial nations mounted a number of efforts in the 1990s aimed at identifying and understanding patterns of adult literacy.