Who is Responsible for the Cost of Over-Lashing?
When more lashings than needed are applied to a cargo on board, unnecessary costs have been made and valuable time has been lost....
Read More >>Middle East Gulf Oil Exports Soar in January 2017
During January – a month when all eyes were on oil production cuts – exports leaving the Middle East Gulf (MEG) r...
Read More >>Advantage Vancouver: Building a Maritime Hub
As Canada’s largest port, Vancouver B.C has always been big on shipping. Now they have their sights set on becoming a world-...
Read More >>Uncharted Waters for Shipping
Having returned from a lengthy business trip to Europe, one has the feeling that something is different this time with the shippin...
Read More >>WWIID: What Would the Institutional Investors Do?
The dry bulk market has been in the doldrums for so long now that talks for a market recovery resemble the biblical story of Lazar...
Read More >>Blog: Show Me the Money Please
By Siri Wennevik and June Ho Shipping loans, including export credit financing and lease financing, have been the traditional s...
Read More >>Consolidation and Shipping: A Cure for All?
Since the initial collapse of the shipping industry in the second half of 2008, many remedies have been proposed for a market reco...
Read More >>Great Minds Think Alike, That's the Problem
The spectacular collapse of oil prices in the past nine months has generated much buzz and fanfare (see chart below). Investo...
Read More >>Yesterday No More
The news coming out of the People’s Congress, that concluded last week in Beijing, sent mixed signals to the international m...
Read More >>Doubling Down as an Exit Strategy?
The present state of the dry bulk market has caught many people in shipping by surprise; the wave of the orderbook getting de...
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