Capesize It was a tough week for Capesize owners as the market was seen to ebb away on underwhelming activity levels. It’s uncharacteristic for this time of the year, although 2020 is anything but normal. The week’s movement saw Brazil C3 l…
Dry Bulk Market: Capesizes Faced a Tough Week Read More »
Since the BIMCO Shipping KPI system was launched in 2011, the system has been based on a rating concept. With the release of BIMCO Shipping KPI version 4 at the end of September, the rating concept will be replaced by a ranking concept as dominant benc…
New Benchmarking Concept Will Dominate Shipping KPI Read More »
Global supply chains for goods and commodities were already fractured before Covid-19 arrived. All the pandemic did was amplify the “profound fault lines” in the functioning of those chains and lay bare where improvements need to be made, according to …
Resilience, reshoring and the ultimate trade shock Read More »
Yesterday the World Shipping Council published a paper highlighting serious concerns for maritime trade and global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if the EU expands its Emissions Trading System (ETS) to include international shipping. The WS…
An EU ETS for Shipping Would Undermine a Global GHG Solution Read More »
The coronavirus pandemic dealt a severe blow to global merchandise trade. Data from weekly port calls by container ships show early but uneven signs of recovery. The number of ships pulling into ports to unload and load containers rebounded in many par…
COVID-19: Shipping data hints to some recovery in global trade Read More »