Nickel trade might be a small portion of the dry bulk market, but still it’s one that can bear fruits to savvy dry bulk owners, given the positive market fundamentals. In a recent report, shipbroker Banchero Costa said that “nickel is most commonly use…
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With the IMO Sulphur Cap 2020 entering into force in a little under a year, International Registries, Inc. (IRI), which provides administrative and technical support to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime and Corporate Registries, the w…
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Believe it or not, it’s still a little too early to see what impact the new regulation is having, although this is line with our expectations given the data protection regulators around Europe were inundated with reports of data breaches that still rel…
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The window of investment opportunity in second hand tonnage could soon be closing. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal noted that “in a downward moving market, softer SnP activity is usually a given, as the gap between Sellers’ and Buyer…
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When your scrubbers cannot be open, your options need to be. A growing number of countries and regions around the world are introducing bans on open loop scrubbers that utilize seawater in the exhaust cleaning process. What are the ambitions behind the…
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