2020 has already started with a “bang” when it comes to the tanker market after the latest developments in the Middle East. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Gibson said that “2020 is already turning out to be a highly volatile year. Most tanker …
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Capesize Closing out the first full trading week of 2020, the Capesize market is struggling to gain any solid positive upward traction. Opening the week at $10,825, the Capesize 5TC fell away to $9,020, before staging a small rally to close Friday at $…
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International standards organisations such as ASTM, ISO and AOAC have sought to establish often elaborately detailed methodologies to investigate a given parameter. This is critical for international commodity trade so that buyer and sellers, who are o…
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Compliance with the new IMO 2020 rule is causing various headaches among ship owners. In a recent report, Intermodal said that “as we all know very well by now, the reduction in the maximum allowable sulphur content of marine fuels in 2020 is likely to…
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A historic drop in coal-fired electricity generation will not sway global coal demand from its upward trajectory through to 2024, though growth will not be as steep as it has previously been. That outlook from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) la…
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