Dry bulk shipping

Tanker and bulker spot rates can go sub zero — some tanker rates are there now. What do the negative numbers really mean?

Container, dry bulk and tanker stocks push forward. Biggest winner since mid-2020: Danaos, up (this is not a typo) 1,202%.

If ocean freight rates have legs, analysts see much more room for the secondhand ship values to run — which should, in turn, boost stocks.

The bosses of public dry bulk shipping companies claim that recent market oddities point to good times ahead.

Star Bulk and Golden Ocean have recently acquired almost $1 billion in ships between them as they seek more exposure to the dry bulk market.

It’s not just container stocks rising. Shipping stocks are up for everything from bulkers to tankers to gas carriers.

ZIM just completed the first U.S. shipping IPO in over five years. Here’s a look back at shipping’s wild multidecade ride on Wall Street.

This has been the best January for dry bulk shipping rates in a decade. Is this the long-awaited turning point or yet another head fake?

Higher fuel prices are bad news for box shippers. Higher fuel spreads are good news for owners with scrubber-fitted fleets.

Chances slim for 2021 shipping equity offerings, but a container-liner IPO prospect remains on the table.

Container shipping stocks are back to pre-COVID levels whereas many tanker and bulker stocks are down by double-digits year-to-date.

First, Spire collects the ship-movement data from orbit. Then algorithms use that data to reveal the patterns of global shipping.

The total market capitalization of U.S.-listed ocean shipping stocks has plunged 34% in 2020, but there are reasons for hope in 2021.

Bulk soybean and corn exports are way up, but containerized ag exports are waylaid by equipment shortfalls and Chinese inspections.

A look back at the days after the 2016 presidential election and the strange case of “The Donald Trump Shipping Stock Boom.”

What happens next at the IMO will affect oceangoing ship capacity — and freight rates — for decades to come.

Sequel to “The Shipping Man” asks whether ESG will kill the old-school style of traditional shipowners.

Cargo mix and larger locks kept Panama Canal volumes rising despite headwinds.

A “blue sweep” win for Democrats could be good for container ships, bad for tankers.

Banks, charterers, shipowners and governments want to clean up ocean transport. Not necessarily in the same way.