10-05-2022 Inefficiencies Providing support, Braemar ACM
With rates across the dry bulk sectors improving in recent weeks, particularly on the Capesizes, we look at several inefficiencies across all sizes that may be providing support to freight […]
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10-05-2022 Ample South American grain exports will keep bulkers busy, By Nidaa Bakhsh, Lloyd’s List
The bulk carrier market is poised to benefit from a boost in grains exports from South America. Brazil and Argentina are expected to supply “ample” volumes into the market from […]
10-05-2022 Pangaea Logistics triples profits with another fat quarter, By Joe Brady, TradeWinds
New York-listed Pangaea Logistics Solutions is continuing its run of profitable quarters with a first-quarter surplus more than three times what it earned a year ago. The niche-market bulker operator […]
10-05-2022 Prices, markets, and currencies align for smaller bulk carriers, By Harry Papachristou, TradeWinds
There are few better signs of confidence in a market when a shipping company sells off one of its oldest ships to immediately replace it with one of its youngest. […]
09-05-2022 Dry bulk market tilts in favor of owners, By Nidaa Bakhsh, Lloyd’s List
The dry bulk market is tipping towards owners as continuing healthy demand is set against slowing fleet supply, according to Precious Shipping. While tonne-mile demand is expected to grow by […]
09-05-2022 Chinese iron ore & coal imports in 2022, DNB Markets
Chinese iron ore & coal imports so far into 2022 are down 7% and 16% YOY, respectively. According to Chinese customs authorities, iron ore imports for April came in at […]
09-05-2022 Baltic Dry Index soars to highest level of the year as capesizes extend rally, By Eric Priante Martin, TradeWinds
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) has soared to its highest level of the year as capesize bulkers continued to surge for a fourth day. The index, a broad-based measure of […]
09-05-2022 Container orderbook breaks more records, By Sam Chambers, Splash
The giant containership orderbook, equivalent to the extant fleets of Cosco, Hapag-Lloyd, Evergreen, and Ocean Network Express (ONE) combined, is setting all manner of new records. According to brokers Braemar […]
06-05-2022 Australian Coal Exports, Howe Robinson
Australian coal exports peaked in 2019 at 396 MMT and since then have fallen back to 371 MMT in 2020 and 366 MMT in 2021 in part due to the […]
06-05-2022 No lockdown let up in China as damaging economic data rolls in, By Sam Chambers, Splash
Shanghai officials have claimed, once again, that they are overcoming the worst of the covid crisis, six weeks after the China’s largest city went into lockdown. In Beijing, meanwhile, president […]
