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Cargo owners’ need to plan Asia-Europe shipments for next year was behind Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd discarding the Suez Canal as an option when...
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14 October 2024 Bill Mongelluzzo
Asia-to-US freight rates at the tail end of the peak shipping season are falling faster than is typical for this time of year given the heavy...
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11 October 2024 Peter Tirschwell
Over several months beginning last November when the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) first mentioned the possibility of a strike...
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11 October 2024 Greg Knowler
Air cargo operators are shifting freighter aircraft from South America, India and Africa to the more lucrative Asian export trades where sustained...
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19 August 2024 Greg Knowler
Barring changes to import duty rules in the US and Europe, e-commerce platforms will keep driving up air cargo volumes while soaking up capacity...
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13 August 2024 Peter Tirschwell
As months go by with no sign that ships transiting the Red Sea will become safe from attack, a realization is taking hold that could portend...
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09 August 2024 Eric Johnson
The cratering of venture capital investment into logistics technology last year signals not only a freight market cooling from the overheated...
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01 August 2024 Mark Szakonyi
It’s nearly too late to join other importers that have frontloaded cargo to those ports, with mid-August being the latest Asia shipments can...
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31 July 2024 Peter Tirschwell
For at least some midsize forwarders, this is a summer of discontent. The reason why speaks to larger trends cascading through the industry as...
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25 July 2024 Bill Mongelluzzo
Container dwell times improved at North America’s major West Coast gateways in June despite strong volume growth amid front-loaded cargoes, and...
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18 July 2024 Mark Szakonyi
The Supreme Court’s late June ruling weakening the power of federal agencies gives ocean carriers a more favorable landscape to challenge imminent...
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18 July 2024 Eric Johnson
Midsize non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) face an uncertain path when it comes to the future of their businesses, with pressure coming...
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08 July 2024 Peter Tirschwell
Nearly a half century of labor peace on the US East and Gulf coasts has been thrown into doubt with negotiations canceled on June 10 by the International...
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08 July 2024 Eric Johnson
In an eight-month period, the digital freight brokerage model has taken multiple body flows that demonstrated a heavier exposure to market dynamics...
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08 July 2024 Bill Mongelluzzo
Trans-Pacific container lines are capitalizing on earlier-than-expected peak season momentum by levying seasonal surcharges now on the capacity-constrained...
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04 July 2024 Mark Szakonyi
HAMBURG — Well, that escalated quickly. In just several weeks, the container shipping market has turned dramatically, sending spot rates surging...
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21 June 2024 Peter Tirschwell
The return of vessel queues outside Singapore, and many other ports for the first time since Covid point to trouble in the system that transports...
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18 June 2024 Jeremy Domballe Byron McKinney
Russian oil exports continue to divest from the use of "Western" covered services. A recent S&P Global Commodity Insights report noted nearly...
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31 May 2024 Ari Ashe
Cargo crime on US freight railroads is becoming a growing concern to industry stakeholders because it’s become more sophisticated, organized...
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31 May 2024 Peter Tirschwell
The actions of ocean carriers to restrict the access of forwarders to so-called named-account rates in just-completed annual contract negotiations...
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30 May 2024 Peter Tirschwell
It was one of the key questions to come out of COVID-19: How would the behavior of shippers change, or would it change, following the worst-ever...
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30 May 2024 Mark Szakonyi
Another crack of the Red Sea disruption-driven bullwhip is keeping ships on the Asia-North America trade unusually full.
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29 May 2024 Yingzhi Zhang Byron McKinney
Oil shipments and classification within the scope of the G7 oil price cap attestation process, the use of "other fuel oils" to describe cargoes...
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25 April 2024 Peter Tirschwell
As dockworkers along the US East and Gulf coasts negotiate local port agreements ahead of a mid-May deadline set by their union president, management...
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22 April 2024
The Panama Canal’s ability to handle more ships in the coming months is an encouraging sign for ocean carrier executives who say the added capacity...
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10 April 2024 Mark Szakonyi
The disruptions to containerized supply chains over the last three years that have grabbed international attention are significant in their physical...
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08 April 2024 Mark Szakonyi
India is finally becoming the manufacturing power and sourcing alternative to China that it has long promised to be, shifting container lines’...
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02 April 2024 Ari Ashe
A stalemate over a new collective bargaining agreement for Canadian rail conductors and engineers has set the stage for vote by union members...
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01 April 2024 Bill Mongelluzzo
Container carriers are blanking fewer trans-Pacific sailings than they did the previous two years as the longer voyages around the southern tip...
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28 March 2024 Mark Szakonyi
Recently passed US House legislation amending landmark shipping reform that was enacted in 2022 shows the lack of appetite Congress has in reigning...
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14 February 2024 Eric Johnson
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in logistics over the past year, predominantly around so-called generative AI, has led to a...
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11 January 2024 Ari Ashe
BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation and J. B. Hunt Transport Services were the top-performing domestic intermodal providers in the second half of...
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09 November 2023 Jeremy Domballe
This paper provides some context as to what the tactic of "disabling the automatic identification system (AIS) on vessel" consists of by providing...
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28 August 2023 Byron McKinney
This paper seeks to identify and analyze the FinCEN and Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Joint Alert issued May 19th, 2023, regarding Russian...
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08 March 2022
The Russia-Ukraine war has led to economic sanctions being imposed by global players and is likely to impact international trade of Russia significantly....
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05 May 2021 Ravi Amin
Trade finance professionals recognize the importance of the role they play in enforcing international regulations pertaining to export compliance....
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11 December 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
We now expect global trade in 2020 to go down to 12.7 billion metric tons and to increase to 13.65 billion metric tons in 2021 and 14.2 billion...
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09 December 2020 Guy Sear
S&P Global’s extensive Sea-web database now highlights vessels with ties to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. This advancement was...
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20 November 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
In October 2020 PMI new export orders' readouts for all the main economies of the world, apart from the US, are above 50.0 points which is indicative...
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18 November 2020 James Kwan
For those planning a new digitalization initiative, the following five steps will help build a strong data management foundation that supports...
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12 November 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
To empirically identify the impact of COVID-19 on the trade we have built an econometric model in the gravity tradition explaining the intensity...
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05 November 2020 Byron McKinney
The maritime sanction compliance advisories published by the United Nations Security Council Panel of Experts for North Korea, the US Department...
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05 November 2020 Jeremy Domballe
As regulators continue to clamp down within the sanctions space, it's becoming apparent how historically some players would try to circumvent...
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05 November 2020 Yingzhi Zhang
Part of Zhejiang-Zhoushan Port Group, Zhoushan Port is emerging as a regional petrochemical hub, The blueprint sets out a target of building...
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04 November 2020 Mike Wiman
Mexico carries a trade surplus with the US, exporting more than it imports from its neighbour. For the first 39 weeks of the year, Mexico increased...
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03 November 2020 Ravi Amin
The People's Republic of China, by order of the President, has confirmed a new Export Control Law for the purpose of safeguarding national interest...
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03 November 2020 Daejin Lee
According to Commodities at Sea, dry bulk vessels anchored nearby China waiting to discharge Australian coal has increased to 75 vessels in Week...
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02 November 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
Mean export distance increased by 9.5% over the period 2000-19 from 4,464 kilometers in 2000 to 4,886 kilometers in 2019. An average mean export...
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20 October 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
China is the only top economy showing clear and consistent signs of recovery in Q2 and Q3 2020 - Chinese exports were higher by 0.3% in June...
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19 October 2020 Daejin Lee
Panamax average earning has been supported by a strong grain demand this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and limited coal trade. Chinese...
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14 October 2020 Yingzhi Zhang
E-Commerce has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Cosmetics is among the fastest growing consumer products.
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09 October 2020 Jamie Penniman
The COVID-19 pandemic and explosion in Beirut have underscored the need for marine insurers to develop better ways to understand their risk exposure...
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06 October 2020 Daejin Lee
At the start of October, Capesize (180,000 dwt) timecharter rates increased to about USD30,000/day from USD15,000/day from just two weeks ago....
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01 October 2020 Mike Wiman
For the first 34 weeks of the year, Mexico increased import MTONs from the US by 1.2% year-on-year 2019 to 2020 but decreased import value by...
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30 September 2020 Alice Gladen
China's importance as a trade partner for German pork was clear in 2019 when the volume of German exports to China increased by 81% compared...
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25 September 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
According to the new release of the S&P Global GTA Forecasting model global merchandise trade is likely to go down in 2020 to USD 16,672 billion...
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16 September 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
OPEC has revised down its forecast for global oil demand by another 400,000 b/d this year. The cartel now expects consumption to decline by 9.5...
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15 September 2020 Dalibor Gogic
Year-on-year, for the first eight months of this year total major grain exports to China including soybeans is lower by about 14%.
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14 September 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Rates jumped to more than USD 24,000 per day on 11th September once first rumours started to spread around a potential second wave of interest...
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07 September 2020 Mike Wiman
Mexico usually carries a trade surplus with the US, exporting more than it imports from its northern neighbor. For the first 30 weeks of the...
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07 September 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
The trend in the PMI is clear and consistent within Q2 of 2020 showing a gradual improvement in market confidence from May onwards and continuing...
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07 September 2020 Daejin Lee
Once the surge in pent-up demand is satisfied and the boost to apparent consumption from inventory restocking is complete, growth may fade, exposing...
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04 September 2020
As of August 2020, Wolfsberg Group has released a statement encouraging authorities to adopt the FATF guidelines in accordance to mitigating...
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03 September 2020 Byron McKinney
A joint advisory document has been released by three US government departments regarding North Korea’s ballistic missile procurement activity....
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03 September 2020 Ines Nastali
Fewer scrubbers and ballast water management systems (BWMS) will be installed in 2020 due to COVID-19, according to this year’s Maritime Compliance...
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24 August 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Brazilian Crude Oil Exports remain strong so far in August, with volumes only marginally down since last month. The country has been loading...
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18 August 2020 Jeremy Domballe
With more than 60% of arrivals occuring within the port of Beirut, the port is a vital infrastructure supporting Lebanon economic activity.
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17 August 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
The value of global exports in the first four months of 2020 reported by the analyzed states amounted to five billion US dollars. It represents...
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05 August 2020 Mike Wiman
US-Mexico cross-border trade via Mexico customs bill of lading data.
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05 August 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
China mainland is the only top economy showing signs of recovery in Q2 2020 both in exports and imports
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04 August 2020 Daejin Lee
The current dry bulk market is Capesize-driven market. We have seen C5TC has increased to more than USD 30,000 per day in early July 2020 from...
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24 July 2020 Jeremy Domballe
A research addressing the use case and role of statistical trade data in commodity trading.
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21 July 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
OPEC together with other members of the Vienna Alliance decided that current production cuts of 9.7 million barrels per day (b/d) will remain...
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16 July 2020 Byron McKinney
In the C4ADS report, S&P Global’s role as the issuer of the IMO number for vessels and originating source for the IMO Unique Company and Registered...
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15 July 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
The Western hemisphere countries (EU, the UK, the US, and Canada) seem at this stage to be more adversely affected than other economies, however...
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07 July 2020 John Mathai
International trade in crucial COVID related medical supplies touched $188 billion during 1Q20, registering a growth of 12% over the same period...
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02 July 2020 Mike Wiman
Mexico didn’t impose large-scale quarantines until the last week of March, and the containerized export volume declines (measured in 20-foot...
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02 July 2020 Jeremy Domballe
The EU imports from an average of 211 unique Non-EU Trade partners each year – representing a 22% increase in value of goods and 227 Billion...
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02 July 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
In Q1 2020 the value of global exports of aerospace products and parts fell to USD 75,854 billion which represents a fall of 8.0% year-on-year...
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19 June 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
April 2020 brought about a massive collapse in the value of exports (year-on-year) with exports falling by 19.1% in Japan and by 25.1% in South...
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16 June 2020 Alice Gladen
The impact on the shipping industry has been widespread, whether that is the complete freezing of the cruise ship industry, the implications...
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10 June 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D. Katarzyna Skrzypek
It is important to stress that China mainland is a significantly more important trade partner of Hong Kong SAR than the US.
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08 June 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Russian seaborne exports of crude oil marginally fell below four million b/d in May, with volumes coming down 15% month-on-month and 21% year-on-year....
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22 May 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
World merchandise trade is expected to fall in real value by 13.6% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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19 May 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
China’s appetite for Brazilian barrels has remained strong over the last couple of months, but most recent data by S&P Global Commodities at...
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15 May 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Shipments from OPEC members are already significantly down in the first half of May compared to last month. Total volumes exported from the 13...
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14 May 2020 Jeremy Domballe
Grains and cereals have become an increasingly important commodity used in everyday life, from being grounded into flour for baking to simply...
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14 May 2020 Mike Wiman
Looking at containerized trade by 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs), total Mexico exports to the US were relatively flat, declining just 0.9% the...
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08 May 2020 Katarzyna Skrzypek
The situation and prospects for 2020
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04 May 2020 Alice Gladen
As COVID-19 continues to have an impact and lockdown continues throughout the world, the UK fishing industry appears to be struggling. The Marine...
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30 April 2020 Jeremy Domballe
S&P Global US Bill of Lading data is ingested daily, containing invaluable insights into market evolution. The tagging of containerised goods...
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30 April 2020 Guy Sear
The shipping industry has been thrown into chaos by an unprecedented increase in sanctions.
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28 April 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Most recent data by S&P Global Commodities at Sea suggests that utilisation rates for LR2 have improved, while those for LR1 have actually declined....
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24 April 2020 Byron McKinney
The release of the United Nations North Korea Panel of Experts report for March 2020 outlines the main areas of activity deployed by the Democratic...
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22 April 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Several tankers heading for destinations across Europe have been facing huge delays due to high congestion during the last couple of weeks, with...
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16 April 2020 Dalibor Gogic
The majority of cruise operators have ceased operations amid the coronavirus outbreak, and our AIS data suggests that a large number of vessels...
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14 April 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
Chinese exports went down by USD 71,342 million to USD 281.4 billion. It represents a fall of 20.2% in comparison to 2019.
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09 April 2020 Bill Cassidy
As truck drivers rush to deliver essential goods during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, US shippers are taking advantage of...
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08 April 2020
State of Maritime Safety report launched today
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02 April 2020
On 31 March 2020 the US Supreme Court decided that the safe berth clause in charter parties establishes a warranty of safety, in what is being...
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30 March 2020 Peter Tirschwell
A seesaw effect of cargo and empty container movement between Asia and North America is beginning to take shape as the extended China manufacturing...
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27 March 2020 Greg Knowler
Extensive blank sailings have left virtually no empty containers available at European ports, according to the latest data, and extreme measures...
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26 March 2020
Just as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads from China to North America, the disruptive impact of the pandemic will shift from worries...
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26 March 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
The global spread of the COVID-19 epidemic is the single biggest risk facing the world economy in early 2020.
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24 March 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
Indian crude oil imports reached 4.5 million b/d in February, with March currently standing at 4.55 million b/d, primarily driven by lower oil...
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17 March 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
Russia is considered as a bookcase example of a resource course-stricken economy with a growth model highly dependent on the price of oil and...
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13 March 2020 Greg Knowler
China’s record slump in manufacturing output during factory closures in February to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
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11 March 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
The y/y changes in trade data for four out of the main nine economies of the world show that 2019 was a difficult year with sluggish growth and...
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10 March 2020 Rahul Kapoor
Crude oil imports recover in late February, iron ore, coal, minor bulks seeing double dip.
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25 February 2020 Rahul Kapoor
Average weekly crude oil discharged in China has returned closer to normal levels despite a lower vessel count.
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21 February 2020
Unipec, China’s biggest oil trader, has chartered a tanker to ship a cargo of Vietnamese crude to Hawaii, in the first such shipment in more...
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20 February 2020 Fotios Katsoulas
The coronavirus's effect starts becoming clear, with China’s energy demand falling sharply.
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28 January 2020 Byron McKinney
The sanctions imposed on subsidiary ship owners that were part of the COSCO Shipping family in late 2019 by the Office of Foreign Asset Control...
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28 January 2020 Tomasz Brodzicki, Ph.D.
The UK will leave the European Union on 31 January 2020 after 47 years of membership (a truly once in a century event). The uncertainty over...
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24 January 2020 Daejin Lee
On 15 January 2020, President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier He signed the highly anticipated “phase-one” trade agreement between the US and...
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14 January 2020 Daejin Lee
China's 2019 coal imports were up 6.3% compared with 2018 levels, while December’s imports tumbled nearly 73% to 2.77 million tonnes.
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02 January 2020
World merchandise trade volume is forecasted to grow 2.7% in 2020, and to grow by 5.0% in 2021.
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03 December 2019 Byron McKinney
Shipping is a crucial component of trade finance and anything that impacts the regulatory or financial standing of a vessel, a vessels ownership...
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02 December 2019
US imports from China in 2017 reached over 70.5 million tonnes and exceeded 75.2 million tonnes in 2018. We predict lower growth rates in 2019...
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11 October 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
OPEC decided to raise the oil output ceiling for Nigeria to 1.774 million b/d, from 1.685 million b/d.
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07 October 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Chilean Supreme Court order to re-assess mining project signals legal uncertainties and likely delays for large-scale developments
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03 October 2019 Daejin Lee
Dry Bulk Trade: Record Brazil Corn Shipments a Warning Signal for Q4 US Grain Season
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24 September 2019 Byron McKinney
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has issued a fine of $4 million to the British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) regarding violation of...
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23 September 2019 Daejin Lee
Indonesia will again ban exports of nickel ore, encouraging investors to build smelters at home to produce value-added products: Nickel prices...
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20 September 2019 Rahul Kapoor
Chinese iron ore imports are unlikely to show any signs of easing in the near-term with imports likely to stay elevated despite economic malaise...
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19 September 2019 Rahul Kapoor Daejin Lee
A sequential decline in August iron ore export volumes from Brazil is at odds with Capesize freight rates surging to a six-year high in recent...
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15 August 2019
OFAC recently announced its Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations (RPPR) that outlined the recordkeeping and auditing functions for...
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17 July 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
Last week, oil prices recovered significantly, primarily supported by the continued decline in US crude inventories. This suggests that the supply...
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15 July 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
July is a typically poor month for the VLCC segment, with activity slowing down across all major exporting regions. There has been limited optimism...
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15 July 2019
The recent announcement from FedEx that the multinational cargo carrier has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Commerce is the latest...
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05 July 2019 Daejin Lee
S&P Global freight forecast models, released yesterday, predict dry bulk freight rates to strengthen in the second half, as more aggressive stimulus...
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28 May 2019
There has been a flurry of sanctions related penalties issued by US authorities in April and May 2019, continuing the overall theme so far of...
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22 May 2019
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has for the first time issued guidelines on what it believes constitutes a robust compliance program...
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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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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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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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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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29 March 2019
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25 March 2019 John Miller
After recovering from the war with the US, which decimated the countryside and killed millions of people, Vietnamese leaders in the 1980s started...
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18 March 2019 John Miller
For decades, Africa’s top economies have sought to build a new brand of widespread durable prosperity and escape the painful legacy of colonialism....
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12 March 2019 Fotios Katsoulas
The VLCC market has been realising significant gains driven by the increasing loading activity in the US Gulf. However, the country’s only deep-water...
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11 March 2019 John Miller
Perhaps no country risks losing more from the winds of protectionism and tariffs sweeping the world than Germany.
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04 March 2019 John Miller
As European and Arab leaders gathered in late February for a summit in Egypt, they promised to focus on boosting trade between the two regions....
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26 February 2019 John Miller
If you were to design an economy perfectly tailored to succeed in the modern global economy, it might look like Australia’s. The country of 23.5...
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22 February 2019
The backstop means there would be a single EU-UK customs territory. There would be no tariffs, quotas, or rules of origin checks between the...
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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 Fotios Katsoulas
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 Fotios Katsoulas
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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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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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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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
In this webinar we will demonstrate how you can utilize the special study, “A Sea Change: Plastics Pathway to Sustainability”, to adjust your...
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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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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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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 S&P Global 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.S&P Global.com. A shift in the technological tectonic plates occurred on 20 June creating a ripple...
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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.S&P Global.com. Ports are facing slower growth as fundamental structural changes in the container...
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14 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Newbuilding deliveries are set to spike in the first quarter, particularly in the...
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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.S&P Global.com. With the Maersk hacking debacle still fresh, a presentation by Moore Stephens on...
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10 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Questions are being asked about the use of organotins in anti-fouling paints. Credit...
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07 July 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Shipowners concerned about the costs of environmental regulations on vessel operations...
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19 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Communication structures that foster higher levels of trust and collaboration between...
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15 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Over the past month some second hand Capesize prices have soared up to 38% for one...
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13 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. The most serious crisis to break out in intra-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) relations...
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09 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Two of the world's giant maritime hubs, Asia's transshipment centre of Singapore...
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07 June 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. As the one-year anniversary of its locks expansion project nears, the Panama Canal...
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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.S&P Global.com. The ability of the US Coast Guard to monitor independent laboratories testing ballast...
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10 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.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.S&P Global.com. New vessel orders are threatening to blight the container shipping sector whose growth...
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05 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Maersk Line is setting up separate internal IT and digital divisions as part of a...
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04 May 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.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.S&P Global.com. The landscape of tanker shipping is poised to change in the years to come as financing...
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07 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Increased terminal consolidation within the alliances should be expected as lines...
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06 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Expectations that fortunes will improve in the bulk carrier sector this year are...
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06 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. After a long period of escalating distress in the wake of lower oil pricing, George...
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05 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Most of the estimated initial combined savings of JPY110 billion (USD960 million)...
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05 April 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) programme continues to generate high levels of interest...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story was originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com Terminals in Hong Kong are facing pressure from unprofitable shipping lines to...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.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 originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Terminal operators can expect downward pressure on tariffs to continue in certain...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Private equity (PE) groups may be much less interested in taking shipping equity...
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28 February 2017 IHS Markit Maritime & Trade Expert
This story originally published on Fairplay.S&P Global.com. Donald Trump's presidency should boost fee prospects within New York's maritime ......
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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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05 December 2016
S&P Global Global Maritime Outlook 2017
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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
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...
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