Crude oil shipping
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American Shipper
Why crude-tanker collapse could be long and painful
New Kpler data reveals slow pace of floating-storage unwind and steady fall in crude-tanker utilization.
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Trump vs. Biden: How the winner could affect ocean shipping
A “blue sweep” win for Democrats could be good for container ships, bad for tankers.
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Can green shipping scheme lick ‘herding cats’ dilemma?
Banks, charterers, shipowners and governments want to clean up ocean transport. Not necessarily in the same way.
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New ship orders sink as fear of future economic crisis grows
Shipping CEOs see an increasing risk of a global economic crisis in the decade ahead.
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How IMO 2020 turned into the Y2K of ocean shipping
Marine fuel prices are down 30% year-on-year despite the IMO 2020 regulation.
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COVID fears pummel already battered shipping stocks
Ocean shipping stocks remain mired in a sea of red. A bad year is getting worse.
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Tanker market is awash (again) in floating storage chatter
Amid talk of more floating storage, Kpler data reveals most of round-one storage volume is still on the water.
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Shipping suffers wave of spills, fires, collisions and lives lost
After decades of safety improvements, a deadly stretch of casualties for ocean shipping.
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Supertanker spot rates are crashing down to ‘opex’ levels
Crude-tanker rates on the benchmark Middle East-Asia run are now deep in the red.
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Disaster fallout: How global shocks are reshaping trade
McKinsey warns that global shocks will become more frequent and shippers must improve the resiliency of their supply chains.
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