Recently there has been a spate of serious casualty incidents involving bulk carriers and container ships for which early indications suggest severe hull failure. While any incident of this nature is regrettable, the shipping industries safety record has Download File [PDF]

The historically weak freight environment continues to batter the earnings of tanker companies the world over. The high and low tides of revenue opportunities have Download File[PDF]

On its 99th birthday, the expansion of the Panama Canal poses an existential question for its namesake tanker sector. Speculation on the obsolescence of the Download File[PDF]

There has been very little good news for crude tanker owners for more than a year now. "Oversupply", "extremely low earnings" and "financial challenges" are words Download File [PDF]

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, Download File[PDF]

The languishing West African Suezmax trade saw a much needed boost in activity last month. The upswing can likely be credited to the recent collapse in the West Texas Download File[PDF]

Mounting unrest in Egypt this week culminated in violent clashes on Wednesday after the interim government there commenced a crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood Download File[PDF]

Last time our weekly focused on the situation in Iran, it was the eve of the presidential elections where we speculated that little would change in respect to the Download File [PDF]

Regardless of the state of the global economy, the world renowned Fifth Avenue in New York City is always bustling with optimistic shoppers Download File[PDF]

The steady decline of Mexico’s crude oil production not only poses threats to the nation’s GDP, but also to the health of the tanker market in the Caribbean basin. Download File[PDF]