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20 February 2019
With China’s economic growth near a three-decade low, having reached 6.4% in 2018, there is a lot of concern about the global crude oil market’s...
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19 February 2019 John Miller
The global iron ore business is entering a new era of uncertainty. After a two-decade boom, mining and seaborne trade of the mineral essential...
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15 February 2019
India, the world’s second biggest crude oil importer, absorbed around 9.5% of global trade flows last year. The country has been recently switching...
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12 February 2019 John Miller
One of global trade’s most pivotal factors has become the Chinese New Year, which kicked off this year on February 5.
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11 February 2019
Last year, Libyan crude oil production averaged around 50,000 barrels per day (b/d) lower than the 1 Mn b/d target earlier set by the state....
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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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05 February 2019
A month is already gone and the first messages we get for 2019 might not be as promising as some shipowners would have earlier wished for.
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04 February 2019 John Miller
Coal is having a rebound moment. Even as US and European miners endure bankruptcies, and regulations to cap carbon emissions, the black rock...
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29 January 2019
Despite the earlier optimism among some owners, January hasn’t been an easy month for the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) segment.
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25 January 2019 Dr. Victor Shum Anindya Boral
A Changing Crude Oil Market and Implications for Asian Buyers
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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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17 December 2018 John Miller
Peru is already the world’s second largest copper exporter and recent elections indicate it’s prepared to bet even more heavily on mining.
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11 December 2018 John Miller
It’s almost Christmas, peak buying season for the $100 billion global toy market. That means it’s time for manufacturers, shipping lines and...
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04 December 2018 John Miller
The US is still the world’s top grain exporter, but Russia is closing the gap, with India, France, Argentina and Canada following. US farmers...
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27 November 2018 John Miller
As Indonesia heads into a presidential election next April, the world’s fourth most populous country is attempting to attract foreign investment...
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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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13 November 2018 John Miller
As Colombia recovers from bloody civil strife, contains a resurgent cocaine trade, and firms up its economy under a new president, it will need...
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12 November 2018
New TPP – the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will enter into force December 30th. CPTPP has been...
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08 November 2018 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
When the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO’s) legal committee met for its 105th session in April, the subject of fraudulent ship registrations...
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05 November 2018 John Miller
Trade and production of plastics are getting a boost from more gas drilling, even as the fuel-based material faces opposition because it’s so...
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29 October 2018 John Miller
The modern factory food industry which nourishes many of the world’s 7.6 billion people demands large supplies of wheat, corn, sugar and soybeans....
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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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16 October 2018
The dispute resolution process of the 1994 NAFTA will be preserved. Canada can challenge duties placed by US on Canadian exports on an expert...
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15 October 2018 John Miller
If Jair Bolsonaro beats Fernando Haddad for Brazil’s presidency on Oct. 28, it’s expected to spur Brazilian exports at the expense of environmental...
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09 October 2018 John Miller
The trade war between the US and China has cast a gloom over the global economy. Higher tariffs are expected to increase prices and dent demand...
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03 October 2018
The EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement signed July 17, 2018. Expected to enter into force in 2019 and eliminate tariffs on most commodities....
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01 October 2018 John Miller
NAFTA is alive. Canada and the Trump administration found common ground late Sunday night, signing a last-minute pact to revamp the North American...
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24 September 2018 John Miller
All year, even as the Trump administration and Chinese leaders fired round after round of new tariffs at each other, both sides targeted mostly...
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20 September 2018
On Monday September 17th, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a list of approximately $200 billion worth of...
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17 September 2018 John Miller
As Hurricane Florence marched up the US East Coast this weekend, killing at least 16 people and wreaking havoc with unrelenting rain and flooding...
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13 September 2018
US Exports reached 1.5 trillion USD in 2017. China is the 3rd largest US Export market, by value, after Canada and Mexico. US Exports to China...
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10 September 2018 John Miller
As we discussed last week, the car industry has taken big hits in the global trade war, which so far has targeted industrial sectors.
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06 September 2018
The US Mexico NAFTA and the EU Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) could affect US Automotive Exports to EU
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05 September 2018 John Miller
The world’s brewing trade war could have a significant impact on automakers, parts manufacturers, logistics firms, and investors.
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30 August 2018
The US administration is planning on sending the agreement to the US Congress on Friday. This puts pressure on Canada to make a decision.
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27 August 2018 John Miller
One of the key chess pieces is in the ongoing US-China trade spat is a classic Beijing industrial plan. In 2015, China released a new ten-year...
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20 August 2018 John Miller
The global trading infrastructure, from shipping lines to investment banks, turns its eyes to Turkey. The country of 80 million, a bedrock economy...
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13 August 2018 John Miller
Supply chains are feeling the winds of trade wars.
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06 August 2018 John Miller
As the European Union, China and the US dig in for a trade war, one global sector is bracing for its role as foot soldiers in the commercial...
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30 July 2018 John Miller
Last week, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker flew to Washington to cool a brewing trans-Atlantic trade war.
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17 July 2018 John Miller
For centuries tobacco drove global trade and helped shape the modern world.
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09 July 2018 John Miller
On Friday, US customs kicked off Washington’s latest line of trade defense against China, putting tariffs on $34 billion worth of products, including...
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02 July 2018 John Miller
In 1975, with oil prices spiking and the US rocking from the shock of Watergate, the world’s six biggest industrialized democracies met in a...
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25 June 2018 John Miller
There’s less than a week to go before Mexico’s July 1 presidential election, and polls indicate that the favorite is the leftwing populist Andrés...
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18 June 2018 John Miller
This weekend, Beijing showed why, unlike some other countries, it likely has the upper hand in negotiating trade terms with the US.
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11 June 2018 John Miller
The US-Canada trade feud underscores the risks faced by Canadian firms doing business with the US, especially carmakers and industrial suppliers....
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04 June 2018 John Miller
The US ramped up trade friction last week with key allies Canada, Mexico and the European Union, by implementing proposed metal tariffs, underscoring...
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29 May 2018 John Miller
One of the tenets of 21st century globalization has been that Africa, Asia and Latin America’s new middle classes will want and pay for a high-protein...
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18 May 2018 John Miller
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions is likely to accelerate Tehran nation’s turn...
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14 May 2018 John Miller
While China has turned into the world’s top exporter in the new century, and accumulated the accompanying riches and status, the second biggest...
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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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29 January 2018 John Miller
The Trump administration in January made its most protectionist move yet, imposing tariffs on imports of large home washing machines and solar...
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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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17 January 2018 John Miller
For the all the razzmatazz around bitcoin, non-crypto humans still ship a lot of their wealth around the world in auriferous rock.
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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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