China To Discipline Transpacific Prices As Europe Struggles

Chinese authorities are set to interfere in both pricing and capacity management on the transpacific, as rates soared to record highs again this...

Transpacific Freight Rates Soar As Shippers Rush for China Goods

Freight rates on the headhaul leg from Asia to the west coast North America hit extraordinary highs. As a result, transpacific container shippers...

E-Commerce Merchants To Rely On Ocean Transport for Early Christmas Shipping

Surge in airfreight rates forces e-merchants to rely on ocean transport in order to ship their goods before the holiday season. One container...

An Industry Insight Into The World’s Largest Shipowning Nation

  Greek shipowners own 20.67% of global tonnage and 54.28% of the European Union -controlled tonnage, making it the world’s largest shipowning nation. It...

ReCAAP Reports A 38% Spike in Armed Robbery This Year

The total number of piracy incidents reported during January-August 2020 has increased compared to January-August 2019. This was due to the increase of...

Weekly Bulk Report – Week 37, 2020

The Baltic Briefing has released a report about the dry bulk market for the 37th week of shipping activities of this year. The report...

Dredger Vessel Attacked by ‘Environmental Activists’

Dredger vessel QUEEN OF NETHERLANDS was attacked by boats with hundreds of fishermen and activists. The ship was shelled with stones and Molotov...

How Sodium Nanofluid Can Help in Oil Recovery

Scientists at the University of Houston have designed an inexpensive and non-toxic nanofluid to recover oil with high viscosity from reservoirs. The nanofluid...

Oracle Wins Tiktok Bid Over Microsoft’s Highest Standards Deal

In a piece of startling news today, Oracle Corp. won the bidding for the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app TikTok,  beating out Microsoft...

COVID19 Pandemic Exposed Key Ship Management Issues

From seafarer wellbeing to a lack of recognition from governments, the shipping industry has seen many challenges arise in the past few months. During...