More newbuilding orders were reported last week, while deals in the second hand market were fewer. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa commented that “strong number of contracts reported again this week in the newbuilding market, whe…
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Shipping has talked itself into a convenient, yet erroneous, belief: that headline efficiency percentages on paper tell an owner what a clean technology will deliver in the real world. In reality, a single figure quoted out of context, or a fuel saving…
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Over the spring of 2026, we logged 354 reported tanker fixtures across two of the Middle East’s principal crude gateways and set them side by side to compare how each region’s fixing activity behaves: Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea c…
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The VLCC tanker market seems to be witnessing reduced volatility after a multi-week turbulence. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Gibson said that “the global VLCC market appears to have entered a phase of cautious stabilisation with freight rate…
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Global trade today is at the centre of a ‘structural stress’ in which geopolitics, energy dependency and climate constraints are crashing together to reshape flows of goods, capital and policy priorities. That was the central theme of a recent wide-ran…
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