China’s seaborne trade: a spectacular upwards trend

Brisk growth in China’s enormous seaborne trade has resumed over the past couple of years, following an earlier sharp slowing of the upwards trend.

Dry Bulk FFA: Capesize Market’s Bearish Trend Persists

Highlights:• Capesize Index- Technically the trend remains bearish. Market buyers need to see higher lows on ...

Dry Bulk FFA: Panamax On Upside Trend

Panamax Index WeeklyResistance – 8,312, 8,857, 12,478Support – 6,281, 5,948, 5,122Technically a dangerous...

Metallurgical coal freight trend amplifies Atlantic/Pacific differences

Atlantic met coal buyers may be anticipating sharp falls in pricing for second quarter cargoes after paying a multi-year high under benchmark-related Q1 contracts, but the current freight rate tendency may better support prices for US cargoes.

Downward trend for large tanker spills continues: ITOPF

There was an increase in the number of large oil spills from tankers last year compared to 2014, but the overall trend for the decade remains a downwards one according to International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF). ...

China shipyards new orders continue downward trend in first 11 months

Chinese shipbuilders have continued to see dwindling new vessel orders in the first 11 months of this year as the industry is challenged by a prolonged slump. ...

Drewry: Carriers Keep Upwards Reliability Trend

Container service reliability made another steady improvement in June with the aggregate on-time performance for the three key East-West trades rising by 5.7 percentage points to extend the data-series record to 77.3%, according to Drewry’s Carrier Perfor