Trans-Pacific spot index rates haven’t budged from the same peak band for the past 10 weeks. How is this possible in a competitive free market?
Container shipping stocks are back to pre-COVID levels whereas many tanker and bulker stocks are down by double-digits year-to-date.
There will be no letup in booming container imports in 2020. The only question now is how long it lasts into 2021.
The pandemic is driving people to drink more. Bulk ocean shipments of wine in flexitanks are up 30% this year.
First, Spire collects the ship-movement data from orbit. Then algorithms use that data to reveal the patterns of global shipping.
Transfix will integrate project44’s visibility platform into its shipment tracking technology as the first initiative under a multiyear strategic partnership.
Panama Canal congestion is not impeding transits of container ships but it is pumping up spot rates for LNG and LPG carriers.
The total market capitalization of U.S.-listed ocean shipping stocks has plunged 34% in 2020, but there are reasons for hope in 2021.
Ocean Audit founder and CEO Steve Ferreira talks latest maritime shipping trends on Black Friday.
Worries mount for crude tankers: dividend cuts, the pandemic, a stubborn floating-storage hangover … and now newbuild chatter.
Bulk soybean and corn exports are way up, but containerized ag exports are waylaid by equipment shortfalls and Chinese inspections.
Mirroring bullish comments by Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, container line CMA CGM reports a strengthening market in the fourth quarter.
As COVID hospitalizations surge and business restrictions mount, could U.S. importers be overshooting the mark?
Maersk confirms that cargo demand looks strong through year-end, bucking the usual seasonal trend.
“Winter is Coming” is a warning in House Stark and usually a blessing for tankers. But there’s nothing usual about 2020.
Hapag-Lloyd sees strength until “at least Chinese New Year” and a challenge to “get containers where they need to be.”
There are not enough containers in China to handle all the U.S.-bound cargo — and box factories are now sold out into Q2.
The one-two punch of the Pfizer vaccine and Joe Biden’s victory will affect container and tanker shipping in multiple ways.
The trans-Pacific capacity crunch continues. Container volume that’s either inbound to Los Angeles or stuck at anchorage is surging.
Euronav exec curses crude-tanker market (literally). Scorpio exec pitches product-tanker promise and throws shade at crude side.
