Fitch Ratings has revised its 2026 outlook for the global shipping sector to ‘neutral’ from ‘deteriorating’, reflecting a war-driven increase in demand for alternative suppliers and routes, primarily for oil and oil products. Th…
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Global seaborne coal flows reached 119mt in May 2026, up 5% y/y — the first month of consecutive y/y growth in 2026 so far, and with an accelerating growth rate compared with April’s revised figure of 4%. Chinese seaborne coal imports fell by 6% …
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Over the past four years, tanker markets have been reshaped by geopolitical shocks, with freight volatility increasingly driven by inefficiencies rather than pure cycles. The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a major reconfiguration of crude and pr…
Long Voyages in a Fragmented World: The Evolution of Tankers Read More »
“During April to May, Western Africa’s clean petroleum product (CPP) imports fell 44% year on year, from 1,144 thousand barrels per day (kbpd) to 642 kbpd,” says Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst at BIMCO. The drop in import volumes cut ton…
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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…
How shipping should be buying clean technology Read More »