Baltic Dry: 30yrs of Stats Tells You The Bounce You Now See Is Seasonal. Again.
The Baltic Dry Index - once a quaint indicator for shipping sector wonks to figure out expected marginal profitability of shippers who ran a...
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Container Shipping Industry Last Few Weeks Factoring in Doomsday
My updates back in December to reiterate the negative in containers (and bulk) and anticipated a weak 2016, to be sure. But in recent weeks it...
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Valemaxes May Have Delivered the Knock-Out Punch to the Capesize Market
It was a pleasure reading https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-s-ship-subsidies-from-hell by Charles De Trenck this morning. Great insight...
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The China Series: If You Think Things Are Bad Now...
If you think things are bad now, just wait until the slowdown really begins. China produces 60% of the world’s cement but only commands 16% of the...
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Deja Vu - They Are Throwing in the Towel
Readers of Smartkarma will remember our piece lamenting how PE was partly to be blamed for the pain in dry bulk shipping. We questioned the wisdom...
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