Monthly Archives: June 2016

Can Ports Keep Up With the Changing Needs of Container Lines?

Posted on June 21, 2016 by | Comments Off on Can Ports Keep Up With the Changing Needs of Container Lines?

Robert J. Bowman has written a nice short piece on the turmoil in ports due to changes in the ocean shipping industry (and inland, as well, we should add).   Ultimately there should be more capacity with less utilization, but how fast a port can work in the time it has the ship will be the most important part of efficiency.  Time will tell if the in-port efficiency gains will pay for the lengthened idle times, and cover the risk of frequent variability of visit schedules.

  Source: Can Ports Keep Up With the Changing Needs of Container Lines?

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Great Masquerade of Shipping – Posidonia 2016

Posted on June 17, 2016 by | Comments Off on Great Masquerade of Shipping – Posidonia 2016

I did not go but, having attended lots of conferences, I can get down with the author! It’s hard times in shipping, and that brings out the stress. read the article itself!

This has always been true in big business:

Shipping sees massive deals concerning the movement of millions of barrels of oil on behemoth ships can be made over a third pint of beer at the local pub.

Source: The Great Masquerade of Shipping at Posidonia 2016 – The Barrel Blog

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Ship scrapping to hit record level — panamaxes redundant

Posted on June 16, 2016 by | Comments Off on Ship scrapping to hit record level — panamaxes redundant

Loadstar continues to produce some excellent articles. This one on scrapping also has some excellent articles you can get to from the end.  The scrapping market sheds a lot of light on the shipping markets. Notice the fantastic picture they provided above!!

And this one makes the point really well!

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  Container ship scrapping on course to hit new levels this year, according to broker research

Source: Ship scrapping set to hit record level this year as more panamaxes become redundant – The Loadstar

Here is a screenshot of the other articles I think are worth a read. You can find them on The Loadstar.

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