Bulker newbuilding prices at Far East yards have tipped upwards from their historic lows on the back of increased enquiry from shipowners. Brokers say that in the past four to […]
Shipowners stand a decent chance of benefiting cost-wise from installing scrubbers to meet the International Maritime Organization’s new global sulphur cap for bunker fuel at 0.5% from 2020, said some […]
In an effort to force owners and operators to comply with the ballast water management convention the US Coastguard is cracking down on its ballast water management extension programme and […]
Expectations that fortunes will improve in the bulk carrier sector this year are supported by an IHS Markit analysis, which concluded that the outlook provides owners with a “great opportunity […]
The bulk carrier DL Marigold was ordered from both New Zealand and Fijian waters earlier this month for being an invasive species threat. The vessel’s hull is now being cleaned […]
THE dry bulk downturn has been declared officially over for now and US-listed firms are back in expansion mode. During this week’s Capital Link event, many dry bulk executives were […]
The introduction of mass flow meters (MFM) for bunker operation in Singapore is a welcome development. Unfortunately it appears that although the equipment has changed, the behaviour of some unscrupulous […]
Dry-bulk shipping executives see broad-based commodity demand, not just China’s ongoing need for iron and coal, as helping improve freight rates across the industry. Second-hand prices are improving, and that’s […]
Barry Rogliano Salles (BRS) is tipping the shipping markets to recover on the back of a huge collapse in shipbuilding capacity. Ordering levels have fallen back to their lowest since […]
It is less than a year since George Procopiou lit up Posidonia with a series of seemingly outlandish and bullish comments about the state of the freight markets. “Buy anything […]
