Capesize The Capesize market continues to go from strength to strength, as rates reach highs not seen since September last year. The rally is predominately off the back of the Atlantic Basin crying out for more tonnage. Atlantic charterers from Eastern…
Dry Bulk Market’s Rally Continues Unabated Read More »
Container shipping: Container shipping’s 1Q20 results were strong enough amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as the industry found a way to be profitable in the middle of the ongoing crisis. Container shipping demand in some regions such as Europe…
Drewry Maritime Financial Insight – June 2020 Read More »
It has been a fraught period for shipping cash and credit suppliers this year, with no certainty of a sustained recovery in 2020. A new report on Key Developments and Growth in Greek Ship-Finance from Petrofin Research noted that Chinese lending and le…
Bite of shipping’s credit crunch Read More »
One of the biggest debates around the future of shipping is what role, if any, unmanned vessels will play. The journey may turn out to be more important than the destination: the pursuit of vessel autonomy is already leading to smarter systems that can…
Making ship systems smarter with simulation Read More »
Reduced volumes are currently posing a major challenge to container shipping due to the COVID-19 crisis. So far, freight rates have been held up by the massive blanking of sailings that carriers have put in place. However, even before this crisis, the …
The 2010s: a decade of market imbalance and ultra large container ships Read More »