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Dry Bulk Market: Chinese Holidays Disrupting Freight Rates

Capesize The week was defined by holiday-disrupted liquidity and gradually softening sentiment across both basins. Lunar New Year celebrations in China and across much of Asia curtailed participation early on, limiting activity and constraining momentum. Initial firmness on C5, with a major miner fixing at $9.50, proved short-lived. As the week progressed and Singapore returned, …

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IMO takes a step closer to a standalone legal instrument on biofouling management

At its 13th session, the IMO’s Pollution Prevention and Response Sub-Committee agreed to recommend to the Marine Environment Protection Committee that a standalone instrument on the control and management of ships’ biofouling to minimise the transfer of invasive aquatic species should be developed. At the 13th session of the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and …

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Tankers: VLCCs Recovered Last Week

Clean LR2 Freight levels on MEG LR2’s were flat this week. The TC1 75kt MEG/Japan rate remained around WS165 with the corresponding TCE hovering just over $36,000/day on Baltic description round trip. A voyage west on TC20 90kt MEG/UK-Continent also held stable this week at the $4.0 million mark. The TC15 80kt Mediterranean/East index continued …

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Xeneta Weekly Ocean Container Shipping Market Update: Average spot rates are down this week across all main fronthaul trades out of the Far East

Latest Xeneta ocean container shipping data highlights are provided below quotes from Xeneta Chief Analyst Peter Sand. Xeneta analyst insight Peter Sand, Xeneta Chief Analyst: “Average spot rates are down this week across all main fronthaul trades out of the Far East. “From Far East to US West Coast and US East Coast, it is …

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El Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación reparte la cuota de caballa entre la flota que faena en el Atlántico nordeste, con un significativo incremento

Para 2026 se fija una cuota adaptada de 1.275,75 toneladas de caballa norte para los buques autorizados de los censos de altura, gran altura y palangreros La medida beneficia a 84 buques que tienen puerto base principalmente en Galicia y País Vasco El Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, mediante publicación de Resolución en Boletín …

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Se establecen disposiciones de ordenación de la pesquería de caballa para los buques de los censos de las flotas de altura, gran altura y buques palangreros mayores y menores de 100 toneladas de registro bruto

Resolución de 10 de febrero de 2026, de la Secretaría General de Pesca, por la que se establecen disposiciones de ordenación de la pesquería de caballa, stock MAC/2CX14, para los buques de los censos de las flotas de altura, gran altura y buques palangreros mayores y menores de 100 toneladas de registro bruto, que operan …

Se establecen disposiciones de ordenación de la pesquería de caballa para los buques de los censos de las flotas de altura, gran altura y buques palangreros mayores y menores de 100 toneladas de registro bruto Read More »

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