Such is the serious fear of the global business organisation representing cargo owners which export and import across international supply chains, the Global Shippers Forum. Following the decade-long efforts of the International Maritime Organisation (…
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Do you know the name of the first navigator who used “weather routing” on his voyage from Europe to faraway lands and back? It wasn’t Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Juan Sebastian Elcano, Walter Raleigh or any other famous name …
An EU embargo targeting all seaborne imports of crude oil and petroleum products from Russia will disrupt tanker trade flows into the trade bloc by the end of the year. All 27 members of the EU agreed to a new sanctions package on Monday that included …
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As we are nearing the traditional peak season in container shipping, the key question is how supply, demand, freight rates and congestion will play out this year. The problem is that global economical and geopolitical forces have created an environment…
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Amongst the speakers were Jutta Paulus (MEP Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance), Bart Verboomen (DEME Group), Rasmus Bach Nielsen (Trafigura), Natalie Gupta (Yara Clean Ammonia) and Alex Clark (Oxford University), and Lau Blaxekjær (Global Mari…