Splash Extra
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Contributions
Finally time to get excited about tankers?
A stunning August has owners hopeful of a belting Q4. Splash Extra assesses whether the optimism is correct. Our strategy…
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Bunkering
What to look out for when negotiating bunker price volatility: Splash Extra
Bunker prices have see-sawed dramatically this year with owners who invested in scrubbers in the ascendant as the price differential…
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Contributions
‘Bulk carriers have a pronounced case of the mid-year blues’
Splash Extra identifies the reasons for the current lull in the markets. Bulk carrier freight rates have increased in June…
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Shipyards
Splash Extra: Ordering boom sees yards weigh up risks of expansion
Global shipbuilding capacity is down by 60% from its 2010 peak at around 2,700 ships capacity per annum and yet…
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Containers
Splash Extra: Boxships, charters, and what happens as the sector unwinds
With many analysts suggesting container shipping’s incredible, record-breaking run has passed its peak, it’s not just shippers who are looking…
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Finance and Insurance
Debate stirs on whether shipping stocks are hobbled by market caps
Will the merger between Euronav and Frontline finally create a shipping stock that is large enough to be attractive to…
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Ports and Logistics
Splash Extra: Constanta port transforms in the wake of war
With Ukrainian suppliers being deprived of their most important export ports, Romania’s flagship Black Sea port Constanta has emerged as…
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Finance and Insurance
Splash Extra: Is inflation good for shipping?
Are ships a good hedge against today’s sky-high inflation? Many owners reckon so, but well known economists show the historical…
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Operations
The winners and losers from the redrawn commodities map
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” One of hundreds of famous quotations from Britain’s…
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Ports and Logistics
How the port of Santos became the world’s cocaine export hub
News last month that Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s largest containerline, had decided to suspend intermodal operations in Brazil…
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Tankers
Splash Extra: Why tankers are a good buy now
The February issue of Splash Extra launches today with sector asset prices leading coverage. Tankers, experiencing record low freight rates…
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Contributions
Has the lockdown party ended for dry bulk?
New Year but same old shipping markets? Splash Extra examines the numbers. During the Asian tiger economy years of the…
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Bunkering
Owners brace for a year of high bunker bills
Shipowners have been warned they will need to relook at fleet deployments plans for the year ahead with the industry…
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Environment
Splash Extra: Inconsistencies of IMO’s Annual Efficiency Ratio laid bare
Criticism has been heaped on the International Maritime Organization-approved Annual Efficiency Ratio (AER), the key measure to define how ships…
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Containers
Splash Extra: Call for creation of dedicated US express carrier on the transpacific
Amid the toughest year for American supply chains in many generations one of the country’s best known liner veterans is…
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Dry Cargo
How electric vehicle demand will transform the dry bulk trades
Electric vehicles require roughly six times more minerals than their internal combustion engine cousins, something that will have significant, as…
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Environment
Splash Extra: Shipping’s emissions on the rise as COP26 delegates prepare to meet
Shipping leaders along with prime ministers and presidents of the world are preparing to jet into Glasgow over the weekend…
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Containers
Splash Extra: Container shipping and global inflation
Container rates look to have hit a plateau, but remain at massively elevated levels, 329% higher than they were this…
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Operations
Splash Extra: Crew shortages bite
The horrendous disregard shown to the world’s seafarers during the pandemic looks set to see future shortages of crew from…
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Dry Cargo
Splash Extra: Costamare’s dry bulk return
Costamare’s decision to reenter the dry bulk trades forms the lead story for the June issue of Splash Extra, published…
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