Tag: Tonnage
Slow Momentum Of LNG Newbuilding Binge
Giant-sized newbuilds ordered by Venture Global LNG and Dynagas highlight LNG carrier order boom that saw contracts signed for 37 new ships in Q1...
Carriers Grow Desperate As Containership Percentage Falls To 0.8%
Carriers are “scraping the bottom of the barrel” for available tonnage, as the percentage of the global containership fleet commercially idle and not in...
Forwarders Urge EC To Intervene As Carriers Avoid Congested UK Ports
According to a Loadstar report, as carriers continue to leave import containers stranded at North European ports and charge exporters more than $5,000 to...
1% Cargo Increase in 2020 As Lockdown Effects Panama Transit
According to a Safety4Sea report, cargo traffic via the Panama Canal increased by a less than expected 1% during this year, as the coronavirus...
HMM’s Idle Tonnage Hits A New High Due To Global Inactivity
One-third of HMM’s container fleet is currently idled.
It is scheduled to receive some 400,000 teu of newbuild tonnage over the next 12...
MPC Banking on Scrubbers Retrofit Charter Rates Boost in the Second...
According to an article published in the Loadstar, an IMO 2020-driven recovery in time charter rates for container tonnage has only recently filtered through...
As Growth Gathers Momentum Scrubbers Spread and Payback Time Looms
According to a Freight Waves article, for the trucking and transport industry which is looking at the start of IMO 2020 next year, with...
Ship Supply Dwindles, Carriers Up for Long Charters Ahead of 2020
According to an article published in the Loadstar, non-operating containership owners Seaspan and Danaos have reported “positive supply side-effects” from the IMO’s 0.5% sulphur...
Euronav Sees Positive Upshot Ahead of IMO 2020
The First quarter 2019 proved to be an unusual and largely resilient one for the large crude tanker sector.
Despite demand reduction and...
VLCCs With Scrubbers Will Yield US$6,100/day More
US shipping research group McQuilling Services has released its 2019-2023 Tanker Market Outlook, reports Tanker Shipping & Trade.
Here's an excerpt from it.
Basis of forecast
The...