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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index slipped on Friday, as a dip in capesize rates overshadowed gains in the panamax and supramax segments. The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels, fell 2 points to 1,423. The capesize index slipped 49 points, or 3.8%, to 1,242. Average daily …
In the first of a series of blogs looking at maritime digitalisation as an enabler of sustainable and profitable performance, Mark Warner identifies the pivot points required for digital maturity for companies across the maritime supply chain. Having started my career in the industry in the late 1990s by interviewing the plethora of maritime dot …
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Heartening news for the global ocean technology and science community is that the Oceanology International (Oi) exhibition and conference is back on the calendar. The three-day Oceanology International 2022 is scheduled to take place in ExCel London on March 15-17, 2022 – and exhibitor numbers are reported to be already on a par with previous …
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The first month of 2022 saw increasing rate levels as was basically expected. The overall FBX index increased 7% from January 7 to January 28 and at a trade lane level we saw Asia-North Europe go up by 5% and the Transpacific into US West Coast up by 14%. In essence this was expected for …
The recent proposal by MEP Peter Liese to update Amendment 9 of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) draft directive and support the ‘polluter pays’ principle is cautiously welcomed by INTERCARGO, the international association representing the world’s quality dry bulk shipping sector. This recognition that often the shipping company is not the commercial entity controlling …
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Drewry’s composite World Container Index decreased marginally by 0.5% to $9,376.70 per 40ft container this week. Our detailed assessment for Thursday, 3 February 2022 The composite index decreased marginally by 0.5% this week, but, remains 79% higher than a year ago. The average composite index of the WCI, assessed by Drewry for year-to-date, is $9,490 …
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The outlook for tanker rates was already dicey. After the worst year in three decades in 2021 and a terrible start to 2022, analysts have just cut their rate forecasts and pushed back their recovery timelines, yet again. As one tanker owner told brokerage Fearnleys, “The light at the end of the tunnel has been …
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Singapore residual fuel oil inventories fell in the week ended Feb. 2, slipping 3% from a near five-month high in the previous week as net import volumes dropped, official data showed on Thursday. Onshore fuel oil stocks fell by 697,000 barrels, or about 110,000 tonnes, to a two-week low of 23.09 million barrels or 3.64 …
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ABB expects supply chain bottlenecks to ease during 2022, the Swiss engineering group said on Thursday, after shortages of semiconductors hurt its ability to deliver increasing orders during the fourth quarter. The maker of fast chargers for electric vehicles and industrial drives for factories reported a 21% jump in orders as demand surged from machine …
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