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16 May 2019
China’s total seaborne imports of all types of coal appear to have increased in May, from the level of April. Australian cargoes also appear...
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14 May 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
With around six weeks left until the next meeting of OPEC+ countries, Russia doesn’t appear to be reducing its output and exports.
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13 May 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
In parallel to uncertainty increasing after saboteurs attacked Saudi Arabian oil tankers amid Middle East tensions between the US and Iran, the...
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09 May 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
With the freight market going through a quiet period, it came as no surprise that there has been no significant change in the freight market...
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08 May 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Recent data by IHS Markit’s Commodities at Sea suggests the US has started increasing its imports from exporters across Americas and West Africa....
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01 May 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
April was a difficult month for VLCC owners, with freight rates in the Middle East Gulf still feeling the pressure of OPEC production cuts.
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30 April 2019
Post-Brexit, the UK has to provide funding for farmers and rural communities development to replace the EU funding of 26 billion EUR.
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30 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
With Iranian sanction waivers coming to an end, oil traders must adjust quickly to the new market conditions. There is still optimism that at...
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29 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
With tonnage increasing east of Suez, rates for Aframaxes were pushed lower on Easter Monday, as charterers had more choices available.
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26 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Waivers from US sanctions on Iranian barrels will expire on May 2, as scheduled.
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26 April 2019
The US is turning to the EU to find ways to decrease the trade deficit that reached close to 890 billion USD in 2018, the largest in over 20...
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25 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
More and more banks and other institutions are publishing forecasts suggesting that the oil price could increase during the next couple of months...
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24 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
There were some marginal improvements observed in the last couple of weeks in freight rates for VLCCs, supported by steady charterer interest...
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23 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Saudi Arabia is determined to proceed with the plan of OPEC+ to maintain oil production at low levels.
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23 April 2019
Following the recent North Korea sanctions advisory dated (March 21, 2019) issued by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Affairs...
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18 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Total loadings during the first ten days of April suggests activity has dropped 6.5% month-on-month and around 4% year-on-year.
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17 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Beijing has further strengthened its influence, this time in East Africa, after securing access to more natural resources, by funding the construction...
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16 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
In early April, charterers were showing preference towards loading on Suezmaxes than on VLCCs, even for cargoes heading to India.
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15 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
With the US turning into a net exporter of crude oil, flows from Nigeria to the US Gulf have been dropping since early 2018.
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12 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
The big question in the market once the US imposed sanctions against Venezuela earlier in 2019 has been “then who?”. This refers to the importer(s)...
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11 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
For Ancient Greeks, Plutus, the god of wealth, was depicted as a boy in the arms of Eirene, the goddess of peace. It looks like prosperity can...
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10 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
April started with the market’s sentiment in the Middle East Gulf (MEG) deteriorating further, as several shipowners compete for a smaller amount...
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03 April 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
According to recent data provided by IHS Markit’s Commodities at Sea, Russia’s seaborne exports increased in March, having surpassed five million...
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07 March 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Exports of OPEC members seem to have further declined in February, with the overall change month-on-month remaining around -6.7%.
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07 February 2019
If the UK leaves the EU customs union, it would be able to negotiate free trade agreements on its own terms with non-EU countries, and the EU....
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28 December 2018 John Miller
The fastest-growing wine market is China, where a bottle of Bordeaux is replacing a traditional Chinese liquor called baijiu as the alcohol of...
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18 November 2018 John Miller
A summary of Hong Kong's top sources of imports, exports and new trade deals with Australia
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22 October 2018 John Miller
Exit polls taken after the recent local elections in Poland suggest a moderate victory for the country’s embattled right-wing populist government....
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07 May 2018 John Miller
With multilateral trade treaties, from the European Union to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, taking hits from protectionist politicians this year...
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30 April 2018 John Miller
The world’s appetite for fish has boomed prodigiously over the past 30 years, and is expected to keep expanding.
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23 April 2018
We’ve spent a lot of time in this space of late talking about tariffs, protectionism, the weakening of trade deals and the World Trade Organization...
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16 April 2018 John Miller
With trade tensions between China and the US threatening American exports, President Trump last week floated an idea. Maybe, he said, the US...
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09 April 2018 John Miller
As we’ve been documenting in this space, the prospect of a U.S.-China trade war has rattled world markets, shipping lines and commerce officials...
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02 April 2018 John Miller
As it had threatened, China has imposed new import duties on $3 billion worth of U.S. imports, including a 15% tariff on fruit, to retaliate...
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27 March 2018 John Miller
After almost twenty years, the global economy is moving into a new trading order, and the emerging rules governing how corporations and companies...
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19 March 2018 John Miller
As negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico prepare to start their eighth round of redoing the North American Free Trade Agreement in April...
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14 March 2018 John Miller
The declaration by President Trump of U.S. import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum has sparked what some analysts say could be the...
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12 March 2018 John Miller
The Trade Numerologist: Latin America’s Trade Slump
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02 March 2018 John Miller
It looks like the Trump truce on dramatically ramping up tariffs on imports into the U.S. is abating.
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01 March 2018 John Miller
A recent surge in Russian demand for bananas has tightened supplies of the ubiquitous fruit, driving up prices and underscoring how one country...
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20 February 2018 John Miller
The booming market for electric cars like the Tesla Model S, Chevy Volt and Toyota Prius Prime is driving a strong shipping trade in lithium-ion...
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19 February 2018 John Miller
Since the invention of the modern bicycle in France, Germany and the U.S. in the 19th century, manufacturers have cranked out billions of two-wheeled...
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07 February 2018 John Miller
The winds of global trade are shifting, and they are bound to impact China, the world’s biggest exporter.
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Politics will continue to dominate Turkey’s headlines at home and abroad in 2018, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan steadily tightens his grip...
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
The container shipping industry, widely seen as slow to embrace technology, could be on the verge of a year of significant advance.
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Surplus capacity coming into the market and demand growth unlikely to match supply appears to have placed a restraining hand on Asia-Europe contract...
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Average call sizes at global container ports grew in the first half of 2017 as bigger tonnage was deployed on several key trade routes.
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Like it did in 2017, space will dominate discussions European shippers exporting to Asia have with their carriers in the first few months of...
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) has said eight South Korean ports will get a total of more than 30 million m² of additional...
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06 February 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Container shipping is in far better shape than it was 12 months ago, when years of heavy losses culminated in the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy...
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31 January 2018 John Miller
The Trump administration is expected to soon announce new government-backed strategies for boosting U.S. weapons sales, according to news reports....
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23 January 2018 John Miller
A big part of the Trump argument in the 2016 election was that his administration would help US companies “win” again in global trade, by protecting...
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05 January 2018 John Miller
Despite populist political turmoil, Western economies are still humming. One barometer: the robust health of the global auto trade.
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28 December 2017 John Miller
December and New Year's are peak periods for global alcohol trade, which is thriving as hundreds of millions in Asia, Africa and Latin America...
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27 December 2017 John Miller
In early December, the US imposed fresh tariffs of up to 266% on imports of Vietnamese steel, one of the first salvos in the Trump administration's...
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08 December 2017 John Miller
No nation's potential prospects for persistent prosperity stirs shipping lines, traders and global miners and manufacturers more than India's....
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07 December 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
LONDON – The 21,413 TEU mega-ships, the world's largest, that call at the DCT Gdansk terminal on their Asia-Europe voyages highlight Poland's...
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01 December 2017 John Miller
Americans shopping at Target on Black Friday didn't pay extra for mattresses, shirts or avocados from Mexico. One reason is that Donald Trump's......
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29 November 2017 John Miller
Indonesia and Malaysia are again at loggerheads with the European Union over their production and export of palm oil. The two Asian nations...
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22 November 2017 John Miller
Tensions over the future of Catalonia could expose how much the Spanish economy depends on its vibrant Northeastern region, and underscore how...
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16 November 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Peter Tirschwell originally published on JOC.com. Despite the goal of newly consolidated carriers to reassert themselves to ......
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14 November 2017 John Miller
As President Trump faces an investigation into his campaign's alleged collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election, US trade with Russia is...
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07 November 2017 John Miller
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's landslide win in Japan's October 22 elections is considered an endorsement of economic policies designed to ...
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02 November 2017 John Miller
Here's a paradox, and a challenge, for recyclers and shipping companies involved in global scrap trade: As the global market is getting bigger...
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26 October 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Despite assurances from CSX CEO E. Hunter Harrison that the railroad has overcome service disruptions due to ongoing operational overhauls, domestic...
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26 October 2017 John Miller
A simmering trade dispute between the US, UK and Canada underscores how the global aviation market has become one of the richest opportunities...
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19 October 2017 John Miller
After enduring a rough decade, the global coal trade has appeared to be back from the dead in 2017. The world's dirtiest fuel is continuously...
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17 October 2017 John Miller
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, Western governments and companies agreed to give Beijing low-tariff access to their markets...
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13 October 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Hugh Morley originally published on JOC.com. The Port of New York and New Jersey is searching again for a way to create an ......
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11 October 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Turloch Mooney originally published on JOC.com. The number of overseas port locations with investment from China's big three...
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09 October 2017 John Miller
The European Union's 2006 REACH legislation, which imposed sweeping new regulations on the continent's trillion-dollar chemicals industry, was...
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05 October 2017 John Miller
The U.N. Security Council last month tightened sanctions on North Korea, including new trade restrictions. It said it would ban textile exports...
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25 September 2017 John Miller
As the southern US rebuilds after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma - estimates of potential damage are as high as $200 billion -- it should create...
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21 September 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Bill Mongelluzzo originally published on JOC.com. Although about 16 percent of US wastepaper exports to China could be lost due...
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18 September 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Creditors of bankrupt carrier Hanjin Shipping have filed claims totaling $10.5 billion, but the company has recovered only $220 million owed...
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15 September 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Greg Knowler originally published on JOC.com. The solid increase in container volume being reported by the world's carriers in...
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14 September 2017 John Miller
President Trump won an election in 2016 partly because he was willing to buck the established order on global trade. Pandering to blue collar...
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01 September 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
A weakening of the US dollar to other currencies is raising US exporter hopes for increased volumes in the low single-digits this year. That's...
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20 August 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
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17 August 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Bill Mongelluzzo originally published on JOC.com. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Wednesday released an update of their...
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14 August 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This article by Reynolds Hutchins originally published on JOC.com. Automakers in the United States are keeping plants closed longer during regularly...
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10 August 2017 Mario O. Moreno
US cotton exports up strongly year to date According to our data from IHS Markit Global Trade Atlas, US cotton exports by volume were up nearly...
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20 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on JOC.com. Longshore efforts underway in recent months to organize management superintendents at individual...
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19 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. A shift in the technological tectonic plates occurred on 20 June creating a ripple in the...
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18 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on JOC.com. E-commerce is transforming long-established business models of industrial distributors, the third-party...
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14 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Ports are facing slower growth as fundamental structural changes in the container shipping...
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14 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Newbuilding deliveries are set to spike in the first quarter, particularly in the tanker...
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13 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on JOC.com. The global steel industry is under a sword of Damocles that threatens to produce a trade war between...
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13 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
US-traded shipping companies embarked on a major wave of acquisitions in the first half of 2017, capped off by International Seaways' 29 June...
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11 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on JOC.com. The eye watering $6.3 billion that Cosco Shipping Holdings and Shanghai International Port Group......
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10 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. With the Maersk hacking debacle still fresh, a presentation by Moore Stephens on the ......
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10 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Questions are being asked about the use of organotins in anti-fouling paints. Credit: Withheld...
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07 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Shipowners concerned about the costs of environmental regulations on vessel operations have...
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19 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Communication structures that foster higher levels of trust and collaboration between container...
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15 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Over the past month some second hand Capesize prices have soared up to 38% for one Japanese...
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13 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. The most serious crisis to break out in intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) relations since...
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09 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Two of the world's giant maritime hubs, Asia's transshipment centre of Singapore and ......
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07 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. As the one-year anniversary of its locks expansion project nears, the Panama Canal Authority...
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06 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on JOC.com. More than 100 container ships are delayed outside the Shanghai port of Yangshan as a combination...
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06 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. The ability of the US Coast Guard to monitor independent laboratories testing ballast water...
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10 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. The weakness in oil and other commodity prices until late 2016, combined with geopolitical...
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09 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on JOC.com. Carriers began the year emboldened by improving freight rates in the wake of the tighter capacity...
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09 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. New vessel orders are threatening to blight the container shipping sector whose growth remains...
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05 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Maersk Line is setting up separate internal IT and digital divisions as part of a range...
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04 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Shipping has been warned that access to bank finance will be very tight. Newly released...
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07 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Increased terminal consolidation within the alliances should be expected as lines make a...
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07 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. The landscape of tanker shipping is poised to change in the years to come as financing will...
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06 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. After a long period of escalating distress in the wake of lower oil pricing, George Economou-led...
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06 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Expectations that fortunes will improve in the bulk carrier sector this year are supported...
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05 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) programme continues to generate high levels of interest...
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05 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Most of the estimated initial combined savings of JPY110 billion (USD960 million) per year...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Donald Trump's presidency should boost fee prospects within New York's maritime ...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Private equity (PE) groups may be much less interested in taking shipping equity stakes...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Terminal operators can expect downward pressure on tariffs to continue in certain markets...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com. Shipping bosses come in different breeds. Some rise to the top after careers in banking....
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story was originally published on Fairplay.IHS.com Terminals in Hong Kong are facing pressure from unprofitable shipping lines to reduce...
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30 January 2017 Mario O. Moreno
US imports of Christmas trees & decorations to hit an eight-year high US containerized imports of Christmas trees and decorations stalled in...
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12 December 2016 Mario O. Moreno
US toys TEU imports forecast to hit a six-year high US containerized imports of toys as measured by TEU volume fell in the third quarter by only...
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09 November 2016 Mario O. Moreno
Global soda ash expanding at 4 percent a year over 2010-2015 Global exports of soda ash by ton volume have expanded at a compound annual growth...
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23 September 2016 Mario O. Moreno
US furniture imports up for 19 straight quarters US containerized imports of furniture as measured by TEU volume expanded in the second quarter...
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05 August 2016 Mario O. Moreno
U.S. exports of DDGs (distiller's dried grains and soluble) have soared in recent years from 1 million tons in 2006 to more than 12 million tons...
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13 July 2016 Mario O. Moreno
US poultry exports tumbled 13.0 percent in 2015 for a total volume of 3.5 million metric tons
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06 June 2016 Mario O. Moreno
US containerized exports of logs and lumber fell by 11.5 percent in 2015
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23 March 2016 Mario O. Moreno
World containerized exports of footwear decelerated the pace in 2015 to an estimated 0.5 percent growth rate, after expanding by 3.0 percent...
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10 February 2016 Mario O. Moreno
US imports of tableware and other household articles to hit an all-time volume high
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14 January 2016 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
After reaching a record high in 2015, US containerized imports are likely to stay on an upward track this year as housing market gains strengthen...
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15 October 2015 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Recently the congestion at the West Coast ports led to a noticeable growth in traffic on the East Coast, but it appears that volumes might be...
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14 July 2015 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
Increasingly companies across all industries are adopting data-driven decision making in their strategic planning and with good reason. Companies...
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23 September 2014 Krispen Atkinson
Availability of shale gas, combined with new maritime sulfur-emission regulations, is making liquefied natural gas a potential fuel option for...
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01 July 2014 IHS Markit Expert
As trade grows, so too will the shipping industry. Challenges ahead include political violence at a growing number of ports and stricter environmental...
