Capesize Riding the downward momentum of the previous week, the market was always going to be hard pressed to make any sort of revival. With multiple drivers including Coronavirus, rail flooding in East Australia, rains in Brazil and a tropical cyclone…
Dry Bulk Market: Capesizes Still Suffering, but Some Respite Seen for Smaller Classes Read More »
Using satellite tracking technology, we have compared China’s real time demand for seaborne crude oil from the Middle East in recent weeks against the same period last year. The coronavirus has coincided with Chinese New Year, so we have compared…
Coronavirus causes China Crude disruption Read More »
Attempts to contain Covid-19 – the new World Health Organization designation for coronavirus – have been drastic and in many cases effective. However, those very same measures of containment and restriction are having unintended and severe consequences…
The physical principle is the same one humans have used on sailing boats since eons ago: the wind hits the leading edge of the sail and splits into two flows which are redirected and travel at different speeds towards the trailing edge, causing a press…
DNV GL: Wind ships ahead Read More »
Despite VLSFO being only marginally worse than HSFO, it is the critical quality parameters that are often recorded off-spec It has been over a month since the IMO2020 regulation came into force and there are mixed views on how the transition has gone s…
VLSFO: Better Quality But Watch For Critical Parameters Read More »