Shipping has talked itself into a convenient, yet erroneous, belief: that headline efficiency percentages on paper tell an owner what a clean technology will deliver in the real world. In reality, a single figure quoted out of context, or a fuel saving…
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Over the spring of 2026, we logged 354 reported tanker fixtures across two of the Middle East’s principal crude gateways and set them side by side to compare how each region’s fixing activity behaves: Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea c…
Red Sea vs Arabian Gulf: Comparing the Fixing Activity Behind the Barrels Read More »
Global trade today is at the centre of a ‘structural stress’ in which geopolitics, energy dependency and climate constraints are crashing together to reshape flows of goods, capital and policy priorities. That was the central theme of a recent wide-ran…
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Coal gasification is increasingly emerging as an additional driver of coal trade and dry bulk shipping demand. While it is unlikely to fundamentally reverse the long-term transition away from coal, it is gradually creating new industrial demand beyond …
India’s coal gasification drive adds fresh momentum to the coal trade and bulk shipping Read More »
Capesize The market closed the week on a softer footing, with the BCI 182 5TC easing from just under $50,000 at the start of the week to $44,374, reflecting a clear loss of momentum as the week progressed. Trading conditions were characterised by persi…
Dry Bulk Market: Capesize Market Softening Read More »