Dry cargo fixture and market reports dated 10 July 2018

SUPRAMAX: A story of two halves today, whilst routes in Asia lost ground, in contrast, routes from the Atlantic overall saw positive gains.  The Baltic Exchange daily fixture report features daily updates on the Baltic exchange indexes, timecharters, periods, voyage fixtures and is listed by ship name, size, delivery place and freight rate. The daily dry bulk market report by the Baltic Exchange contains news impacting the following segments; capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize.

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Dry cargo fixture and market reports dated 21 June 2019

CAPESIZE: The story of the Capesize market over the past week has been largely Atlantic dominated as the basins uniquely volatile characteristics came into play. The Baltic Exchange daily fixture report features daily updates on the Baltic exchange indexes, timecharters, periods, voyage fixtures and is listed by ship name, size, delivery place and freight rate. The weekly dry bulk market report by the Baltic Exchange contains news impacting the following segments; capesize, panamax, supramax and handysize. 

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BIMCO force majeure clause under way

With an increasing focus on force majeure due to the COVID-19 outbreak, BIMCO has gathered a drafting team to develop a free-standing force majeure clause for use in a variety of contracts.

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Container Shipping

An ”L-shaped” market in the making? Demand: The overall sluggish demand picture has resulted in slow steaming and idle capacity equal to 550 vessels comprising 10% of current trading fleet or 1.3 million TEU. 

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Dry Bulk Shipping

Enjoy the ride while it lasts - before over-supply of capacity takes over. Demand: Chinese imports of iron ore and coal have been the dominating factor throughout the year

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Has the overcapacity doom been called off?

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Macro Economics - Without the political responsibility, will and decisiveness, the prospect for a recovery is bleak

As we approach the fourth anniversary of the start of the global financial and economic crisis the outlook continues to be bleak. The V-shaped recovery is now ancient history and the sustainable growth level that we hoped would settle high continue to show a sideways or even descending trend.

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Dry Bulk Shipping - Fleet growth remains higher than demand growth, but freight rates may go up

As we are heading into Q4 our thoughts go back to the strong days during the end of last year. In spite of a recent strong return of Chinese iron ore imports, history is unlikely to repeat itself. Freight rates have been on the slide since mid-Summer and only Capes have resisted consistent erosion.

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Macro Economics - A cautiously optimistic outlook supports the road towards higher growth and reinstates stronger business confidence

The global economy is getting better. The dark clouds that were piling up towards the end of 2011 have now spread, as brisk winds of change are beginning to restore optimism. However, the economic crisis is still not over and many tough political decisions have to be made before we can stand on top of a sustainable recovery. Three factors give us reason to believe things are getting better:

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BIMCO: "Dry bulk shipping fleet will grow by 1.3% during 2016"

Read the latest interview with BIMCO’s shipping analyst Peter Sand in Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide.

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