Scrubber reliability and their emissions reducing efficiency were addressed in February during a technical seminar in which members of the Clean Shipping Alliance (CSA) 2020 reported on the installation and performance of their respective exhaust gas c…
Scrubbers Removing More Sulphur Emissions Than Required By Law Read More »
The Hi5 (low sulphur fuel oil vs high sulphur fuel oil), also known as the scrubber spread, has long been on people’s radars since the International Maritime Organisation’s sulphur regulation became a legal certainty. There used to be wild predictions …
Hi5? More like Lo5 Read More »
As a new era dawns for the maritime industry this year, driven by IMO 2020, the International Maritime Organization’s 0.5% sulfur cap on fuel content effective last month, players in the global container-shipping sector find themselves in a position wh…
London IP week 2020 is in full swing. Coronavirus and its effects on global GDP, trade, demand and the oil price are unsurprisingly a major talking point. So what does real-time seaborne trade flow data show? The data covers the laden movements of clea…
Coronavirus effects on the Clean Tanker Market Read More »
Demand drivers and freight rates Strong winter demand is fading away and has been reflected in falling freight rates. However, because charters are often fixed months in advance, ships with contracts from Q4 2019 are still earning high rates. Moving in…