Shipping
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Trans-Pacific box boom likely to last until March — or longer
There will be no letup in booming container imports in 2020. The only question now is how long it lasts into 2021.
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Bulk booze by sea: Shipping wine in the time of COVID
The pandemic is driving people to drink more. Bulk ocean shipments of wine in flexitanks are up 30% this year.
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How satellites track and help decipher ocean trade (with video)
First, Spire collects the ship-movement data from orbit. Then algorithms use that data to reveal the patterns of global shipping.
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How the Panama Canal traffic jam is affecting ocean shipping
Panama Canal congestion is not impeding transits of container ships but it is pumping up spot rates for LNG and LPG carriers.
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Wall Street’s incredible shrinking shipping stocks
The total market capitalization of U.S.-listed ocean shipping stocks has plunged 34% in 2020, but there are reasons for hope in 2021.
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Career Tracks: World Shipping Council elects CEOs co-chairs
Hapag-Lloyd and ONE chief executives will lead the “unified voice of liner shipping.”
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Frontline’s disappearing dividend ‘speaks volumes’ on tanker fears
Worries mount for crude tankers: dividend cuts, the pandemic, a stubborn floating-storage hangover … and now newbuild chatter.
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Ag export equation: Bulk surge, box squeeze, ‘reefer madness’
Bulk soybean and corn exports are way up, but containerized ag exports are waylaid by equipment shortfalls and Chinese inspections.
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5 maritime sustainability trends for 2021
IMO 2020 and new amendments have the potential to further lower emissions for maritime freight. Carriers are using low-emission fuels, scrubbers and shore-to-ship power.
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CMA CGM’s third-quarter profits jump 1,160%
Mirroring bullish comments by Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, container line CMA CGM reports a strengthening market in the fourth quarter.
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