As we enter a new quarter, shipping markets remain gripped by an escalating geopolitical crisis. The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) lapsed in mid-August without renewal, and by early ...

Clarksons Research, the data and intelligence arm of the Clarksons Group, have reported an all-time high for their cross-market “barometer” of shipping rates, the ClarkSea Index. Reviewing third ...

Those fields in this report carry their last Sep 30 values and are marked accordingly. The only market actually trading was ...

On data: daily average hot metal across 242 mills fell to 2.3882 million mt (-6,100 mt WoW), with the blast furnace operating ...

Ocean Network Express Pte. Ltd. (“ONE”) and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (“ClassNK”) have launched a joint research project to evaluate the effectiveness of roll damping tanks (“RDTs”) on large container ships ...

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed as Iran continues to restrict access and prevent energy flows to global markets, ...

Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said global oil inventories have fallen to “scarily thin” levels and markets will remain under pressure until the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens. Speaking at the Energy ...

As reported earlier this week on Signal Newsroom, Typhoon Bavi is currently impacting navigation around Taiwan and Shanghai ...

HHLA’s subsidiary METRANS has completed the extensive expansion of its terminal in Poznań/Gadki, Poland. Two new remote-controlled railway gantry cranes, extended and additional tracks, as well as ...

Trading companies and oil importers have deferred chartering for several tankers in the Persian Gulf and released those ...

The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index, which monitors rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, rose about 1.4% to its highest since June 8 at 2,910 on Thursday, following a marginal ...

Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk has bunkered 100% ethanol (E100) on one of its methanol dual-fuel containerships. The 2,100-TEU methanol-capable feeder Laura Maersk received its second E100 ...