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Container shipping pioneer calls for creation of new US containerline
Liner veteran John McCown, who worked with container shipping pioneer Malcom McLean for 20 years, is calling for the creation…
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China and the green agenda
We all know the numbers when it comes to China and its importance to our industry. Earlier this year customs…
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November 2021 Review
From the climate summit COP26 to this week’s Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), November…
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Bottoms up for bulkers?
The freight market sell-off that began in October continued for the first three weeks of November, always a long and…
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Covid conundrum for tankers
Oil tanker earnings have improved in November, but 2021 is still likely to prove to be the worst year for…
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Feeling peaky?
It had to happen eventually: container freight rates have topped out. The Freightos Baltic global container freight index peaked on…
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Analyst Abstract
Containers The transpacific has been the greatest source of wealth earned for carriers during this record earnings year for liner…
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Increased volatility makes buying decisions harder
Savvy shipowners know that this industry - notorious for its peaks and troughs - has become super volatile during the…
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How EEXI and CII will impact the S&P market
Decarbonisation programmes set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), shipping’s regulatory body, will be one of the most difficult tasks…
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Green fuels from farms
A German in Japan working a project in Indian paddy fields to deliver clean fuels to global shipping. Hans-Henning Judek’s…
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For once, why not be an optimist?
In one of the most capital-intensive industries on Earth, forecasting future shipping earnings is something shareholders would rightly expect management…
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Shipping exposed ahead of COP26 as emissions increase
There is an inconvenient truth for shipping as it gears up for COP26, the major international climate summit starting on…
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Shipping and the mainstream press
It was not all that long ago that many newspapers in the Western press had dedicated shipping journalists. Now, aside…
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October 2021 Review
Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen sparked tanker merger speculation, dramatically building up his shareholding in Belgium’s Euronav. Fredriksen, who controls…
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Dry bulk: from buy to hold
If bulk carrier freight markets were a tradeable equity (as indeed they are these days via ETFs) then October could…
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Tanker breakeven day finally arrives
The tanker markets have been horribly affected by the pandemic as global oil demand fell by 20% and has only…
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Happy Halloween for boxship operators
Having peaked at $11,109 on September 10, the Freightos global container freight index slid gently to $9,949 on October 8…
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Analyst Abstract
Tankers Think tanker ordering and you’d not be alone in believing it’s been a muted year for signed and sealed…
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Sales come in despite ignorance of where the markets are headed
Here is how today’s weird S&P market works according to one Asia-based broker. Rates go up, nobody thinks the rise…
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