There has been a Capesize S&P “frenzy” so far in 2024, as one shipping paper put it as it reported the sale of the 181,400 Dwt, 2014...

The Panama Canal Authority has taken steps to increase transits in January to 24 ships a day from 22 currently, having previously...

China is increasingly investing in North Africa. Shipping should take note. The shipping industry is largely dependent on China for the...

A Message for Macro Macchiato Readers from our Partners at JS Global Advisory While much of the shipping industry’s attention this year...

Shipping must shoulder the burden, absorb the costs and carry on calmly Macro Macchiato 12/10/2023 This week, Intertanko has issued...

Two news events of interest on 24 August got global coverage. First was the death of Yevgeny Progozhin, head of the Wagner private...

A number of thought pieces have been published recently considering whether China’s economic malaise is deeper than just a prolonged...

and will that help the asthmatic oil tanker market? The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says that it expects record...

Following up on last week's post on what makes a good broker I received lots of positive feedback about last week’s Macro Macchiato on...

I was asked over the weekend what I thought were the main attributes of a good Sale and Purchase shipbroker. Now, I have not worked as a...

As the global economy exits the three year pandemics, structural issues are becoming visible again. President Biden and Speaker McCarthy...

Is the US going into recession? The chances were about 75% at the end of last year that growth would fall below zero for two consecutive...

The Stars Are Aligning for a Supercycle. Shell published its Energy Security Scenarios report last week, which looks at the balance...

Life is going to get harder before it gets easier. In the last week, US presidential aspirants Donald Trump and Ron de Santis both...

Raising the Regulatory Bar. Again. The agreement reached on 4 March 2023 by delegates of the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine...

Maersk and MSC have announced that the M2 alliance will split. What are the consequences? MSC and Maersk are famously untying their 2M...

A Romantic Break from the European Union's Recession Fears Following on from the IMF’s recent upward revision of GDP forecasts for 2023,...

Kung Hei Fat Choi! It's the Year of the Rabbit, and China in particular could do with some leporine energy given the recent news about...

Market Solutions Trump Regulations, Say Respondents. This is the second year that we’ve asked readers to complete a short survey on...

It's hard to decarbonise when you can't get the zero carbon fuel The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the world will need...