The economic benefit to carriers of returning to Suez looks surprisingly thin when weighed against the security and reputational risk. This is an extract from the Container Forecaster Issue 3 2026, released 30 September. The apparent eagerness of conta…
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Methanol may have cleared many of the technical hurdles standing between it and widespread use as a marine fuel, but shipowners still face a considerably harder question: how much confidence should they place in any one fuel pathway when ordering vesse…
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“During the first nine months of 2026, clean product volumes loaded on LR2 tankers fell 28% year-on-year following disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the lower volumes, tonne-mile demand increased 2% year-on-year,” says Niels Rasmussen,…
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Global seaborne coal flows fell 6.7% year on year in September 2026 to 115 Mt. Thermal coal drove the decline, and a rise in met coal flows was not enough to offset it. Behind the headline, regional demand diverged sharply. India and China cut arrivals…
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A second commodity joins the US–China trade programme. On 25 September the White House announced that China would import at least 10 million tonnes of US coal in each of 2027 and 2028, and on 28 September China’s Ministry of Commerce included coal in i…
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