Predicting shipping markets is not an easy task – how often do analysts get it right? In an effort to improve its ability to forecast the market K Line is researching the us...[详细]
China plans to open more of its futures contracts to foreign investors, a senior official said, as Beijing launched its “internationalised” iron ore contract, part of a bid...[详细]
The business environment remains challenging in the Russian Federation, according to MEPS. Downstream steel buyers are reluctant to make deals as they would like to get a cle...[详细]
Port disruptions in Indonesia and a cyclone hitting mines in Australia have tightened Asia’s coal markets in March, while demand in China and other key import markets remain...[详细]
Russia and the European Union are expected to return to strong competition for the rank of the world’s biggest wheat exporter in the new 2017/18 marketing season, which star...[详细]
Expectations at the start of the year that 2016 would be a tough one for the oil industry, and in particular for offshore, were on the whole fulfilled. [详细]
Global asset markets have surged over this summer of central bank love, egged on by the Bank of England unleashing a fresh round of quantitative easing to absorb some of the ...[详细]
Spent Monday and Tuesday [June 27-28] at the Platts Bunker & Residual Fuel Oil Conference in Houston, smoothly hosted by John-Laurent Tronche, (Managing Editor, US Oil Market...[详细]
Container freight rates from Asia – Europe just $250 per teu, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) at 429 points, five-year old capesizes selling for $11m, huge numbers of offshore ve...[详细]
The depressed state of the shipping market, due mainly to excessive vessel tonnage, is making it difficult for companies to actualise mergers and acquisition (M&A) deals, whi...[详细]