Maritime & Trade Research and Analysis

1. In spite of CSX pledge, intermodal shippers say service woes persist

   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...

   

2. The Trade Numerologist: Jet trade takeoff

   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...

   

3. The Trade Numerologist: The coal conundrum

   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...

   

4. The Trade Numerologist: The deal with China

   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...

   

5. NY-NJ joint chassis pool collapses

   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 ......

   

6. Chinese terminal operators closing gap with majors

   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...

   

7. The Trade Numerologist: Chemical Europe

   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...

   

8. The Trade Numerologist: Trading with North Korea

   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...

   

9. The Trade Numerologist: The wooden road

   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...

   

10. China wastepaper import ban less severe than feared

    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...

    

11. Of billions lost, Hanjin creditors may get two cents to dollar

    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...

    

12. Global port volume heads for a six-year high

    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...

    

13. The Trade Numerologist: The tao of US imports

    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...

    

14. How to boost US container exports

    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...

    

15. Share your cyber security insights about the Maritime industry

    20 August 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert

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16. LA-LB ports move forward on major environmental plan

    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...

    

17. Longer US auto factory closures bodes poorly for trade

    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...

    

18. JOC Insights: US exports of cotton

    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...

    

19. ILWU unionization push threatens employer oversight of LA-LB terminals

    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...

    

20. Era of automated ships moves a step closer

    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...

    

21. Industrial distributors fight to fend off e-commerce 'disruption'

    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...

    

22. Ports face slower growth due to structural changes in global trade

    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...

    

23. Newbuilding deliveries could spike in Q1

    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...

    

24. Carriers, ports fear impact of US steel protectionism

    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...

    

25. US-listed shipowners go on a buying spree during first half

    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...

    

26. Cosco-OOCL tie-up will further limit shippers' options

    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......

    

27. Maersk cyber attack highlights importance of EU data protection rules

    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 ......

    

28. Lack of monitoring undermines coatings convention

    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...

    

29. Long-term environmental costs riding on MEPC 71

    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...

    

30. Procurement-focused relationships 'undermine' collaboration on berth productivity

    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...

    

31. Spike in Capesize S&P reveals optimistic sentiment

    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...

    

32. Diplomatic row could harm Qatar maritime interests

    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...

    

33. Singapore, Rotterdam hub ports target digital solutions

    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 ......

    

34. Panama Canal eyes more transit slots as demand escalates

    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...

    

35. Fog, larger alliance ships cause massive Yangshan delays

    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...

    

36. US sees growing challenge to ballast equipment testing

    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...

    

37. Project cargo market heading for patchy recovery

    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...

    

38. Outlook for carriers seen worsening on overcapacity, debt

    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...

    

39. Operators are the greatest danger to container market

    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...

    

40. Maersk separates IT and digital divisions to speed up digitalisation

    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...

    

41. Global syndicated marine loan volume falls off a cliff

    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...

    

42. Funding changes set to change the tanker landscape, says Euronav's Rodgers

    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...

    

43. Consolidation of transhipment hubs within new alliances likely, says liner network specialist

    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...

    

44. Bulker owners seize the day

    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...

    

45. Ocean Rig bankruptcy: Another ball in Economou's juggling act

    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...

    

46. 'Tariff effect' to create majority of initial savings of new Japanese liner shipping entity

    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...

    

47. Quantifying One Belt One Road may be a fool's game

    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...

    

48. Hong Kong and Shenzhen unlikely to lose services with alliance regrouping, says HPH Trust CEO

    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...

    

49. Chembulk's Jack Noonan: from the sea to the corner office

    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....

    

50. Terminal operators need to get used to lower growth levels, says new APMT boss

    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...

    

51. Private equity pursues more targeted shipping approach

    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...

    

52. New York shipping professionals poised for 'Trump bump'

    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 ...

    

53. JOC Insights: US Christmas trees and decorations imports

    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...

    

54. JOC Insights: US toy imports

    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...

    

55. IHS Markit Global Maritime Outlook 2017

    05 December 2016

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56. JOC Insights: US soda ash exports

    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...

    

57. JOC Insights: US furniture imports

    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...

    

58. JOC Insights: US exports of distiller's dried grains and soluble (DDGS)

    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...

    

59. US exports of poultry

    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

    

60. JOC Insights: US exports of logs & lumber

    06 June 2016 Mario O. Moreno

    US containerized exports of logs and lumber fell by 11.5 percent in 2015

    

61. JOC Insights: World containerized trade of footwear

    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...

    

62. JOC insights: US imports of tableware and household articles of plastic

    10 February 2016 Mario O. Moreno

    US imports of tableware and other household articles to hit an all-time volume high

    

63. US imports, exports on upward track

    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...

    

64. West Coast import volumes back to normal?

    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...

    

65. [Infographic] Streamline Your Data-Driven Decision Making

    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...

    

66. Video: Assessing the marine usage of LNG fuel

    23 September 2014

    Availability of shale gas, combined with new maritime sulfur-emission regulations, is making liquefied natural gas a potential fuel option for...

    

67. More trade, bigger ships

    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...

    

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