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
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!
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.
Hercules Haralambides weighs in on the ‘one belt, one road’ (OBOR) initiative China is mounting. It’s been unclear what it really is. But it would be natural for it to be strategic rather than specific to particular investments. That’s his point. Early in the game, we can expect it to be unclear to others what’s going on. His message is to think geopolitically to understand how Chinese investment in transport and supply chain resources might evolve.
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