Splash Extra
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Carbon levy back on the agenda
A carbon tax for shipping is firmly back on the agenda as a way to get zero emission ships ordered…
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The new reality of lower mobility
When was the last time you stepped inside your local bank? For me, I reckon sometime in November last year…
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June 2020 Review
The crew change crunch dominated the shipping news agenda once again with the crisis now making mainstream media headlines. The…
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What if China really punishes Australia
What a magnificent change of fortunes for the haunted capesize sector. It’s happening just as the VLOC Stellar Banner in…
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Storage decline
VLCCs are still making money in the spot market as we approach the end of June. This fact makes it…
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Perplexing liner share prices
After global container shipping demand fell by 4.9% in Q1, a terrible Q2 was expected with volumes declining by as…
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Analyst Abstract
Dry Bulk Last week saw historic jumps in the cape market as volatility returned and China’s stimulus funding on infrastructure…
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The opposite of catching a falling knife
What's the opposite of catching a falling knife? That’s the slightly confused state of play right now in the dry…
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Ports reassess priorities
As with every business sector, ports have had to have a rethink about their post-Covid future. After decades of sustained…
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The students who beat the cape markets
When Splash carried news on Friday that a pair of Norwegian students had developed machine learning algorithms that had beaten…
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Why that commission is worth it
Lockdown has given everyone plenty of time to think. Whether it’s the fact that you are working from home without…
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Boxship tonnage providers squeezed
A swathe of boxship tonnage providers faces the prospect of going out of business as carriers redeliver ships and negotiate…
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Shipping zooms ahead
For those of you, like me, of a UK heritage I can heartily recommend the Twitter feed of @SoVeryBritish, which…
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May 2020 Review
State aid in the form of loans and guarantees started funnelling through to hard-pressed shipping lines in South Korea, France,…
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Clutching at straws
Is the trend your friend? Or is it simply the straw you reach for when all other arguments fail. For…
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Define floating storage
Could someone please define floating storage by means of an ISO standard? If there’s no one else, Splash Extra will…
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‘What’s in stores for June? Consumers hopefully’
The troubles created by the Covid-19 pandemic have turned out to become the crisis that effectively nationalised CMA CGM again…
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Analyst Abstract
Dry Bulk “Too much information kills information,” Alphabulk wrote in an entertaining recent report. “An excess of information can lead…
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‘Like trying to climb a flaccid rope’
Brokers are well known for their colourful language, but how best to describe the shocker of a month that has…
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