Bulk carrier owners have enjoyed a fabulous twelve months. Around the world, governments have responded to the economic disruption...

Container Dialogue I’ve had a number of questions recently about the state of the container shipping market. I thought I’d write down...

I've been asked several times over the last month if ship owners should be worried about rising inflation. I take this to mean two...

A canter round the markets and a summer holiday sale on our latest reports Macro Situation: Vaccines Vs Variants The IMF and other...

My friend and former colleague Simon Ward, in his popular Ursablog, recently discussed the arrival of the Lion Fish in the Mediterranean,...

Geopolitics is back this year with a bang. Italy’s prime minister Mario Draghi has quietly pulled Italy out of China’s Belt and Road...

Commodity markets were shaken over the weekend when news got out about the Chinese government warning "speculators" and "hoarders" in...

We recently invited our readers to respond to a survey we ran for the free-to-register website Ship.Energy which reports on shipping's...

"Sell in May and go away" is the truism in stockbroking but with the pandemic turning the world upside down, is this the year to "Buy in...

I'm very happy to announce that Shipping Strategy Ltd has agreed a partnerhsip with Oceanbolt, data-as-a-service company delivering...

Friends at Vesselbot posted on LinkedIn this week a request for views on what lies ahead for shipping as electric vehicles and renewable...

OPEC will have its minsters’ online meeting today at which a decision will be taken on how much oil to produce. There is much to...

On Monday this week I participated in a panel discussing the energy transition and its effects on the offshore shipping industry, part of...

It’s not easy to get an idea of how big the global market for hydrogen as a fuel is going to be. In April this year, a US research...

For most of the past 25 years I have travelled most months, often two or three times a month and sometimes ten or 15 times a month when...

(Source: Shipping Strategy Ltd based on Balitic Exchange Data) I’ve been wondering why the bulk carrier freight market has been...

Veteran readers of my macro commentaries, from Points of View at HSBC, to Hot Topics at Braemar, Macro Topics at Affinity and Macro...

A tumultuous week in the Anglo Saxon economies distracts from longer-term challenges A tumultuous week is beginning in the Anglo-Saxon...

As US shale producers struggle with a slump in demand related to the pandemic and a glut of crude oil in the global market, US national...

The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (CNBS) has released economic data for the first three quarters of 2020. These are important...