Rough seas for dry bulk shipbrokers as commissions tank
It’s carnage out there for the dry bulk shipping market. Anyone and everyone connected to this market are bleeding profusely with freight for moving dry commodities offering negative returns for over a...
View ArticleRomance of the high seas strong in shipping industry hearts
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea”. So said renowned Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad in his controversial 1900 novel, Lord Jim. Sailors from decades...
View ArticleThe Great Masquerade of Shipping at Posidonia 2016
Shipping is a curious industry. It is a marketplace where massive deals concerning the movement of millions of barrels of oil on behemoth ships can be made over a third pint of Peroni at the local pub....
View ArticleShift happens: The slow apocalypse coming for the shipping industry
Take a seat, Nostradamus: I’ve got some news. To quote the rock band REM, it’s the end of the world as we know it. Like the recent gatherings preceding it, speaker after speaker at the Platts 5th...
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