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Month: March 2017

Careers: MSI is looking for an Oil Tanker Analyst

Maritime Strategies International (MSI) Ltd is a dynamic and highly successful shipping consultancy business. We are looking for highly motivated individuals with proven experience in key account management, strategic marketing or business development within the financial services and/or shipping industry. Read more . . .

MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 1 Minute

Is the Boxship Industry Really Recovering?

Freight rate improvements have recently moved liner operators toward profitability, whilst charter owners are seeing the first meaningful uptick in earnings since mid-2015. Additionally, the scars of disappointing trade growth in 2016 are seemingly healed, while the imposing 2017 delivery schedule is more a hypothetical than an actual barrier to a sustained recovery. Read more . . . 

MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 31, 2017 1 Minute

The Containership bounce back: what could possibly go wrong?

The mood is buoyant in the containership sector but is the market ignoring the sleeping giant, asks James Frew, senior analyst at Maritime Strategies International.

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MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 24, 2017 1 Minute

Why a coming trough may not be bad news for tankers

THE bears are coming to the crude tanker markets. But optimists can rightly claim that they are tamer than before, and that they may not stay long.

“We do expect some uplift to kick in in the spot market towards the end of second quarter as refinery maintenance programmes abate,” an MSI research note said.

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MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 1 Minute

MSI: China could join bulker bandwagon

MSI Analyst sees a modest recovery in dry bulk newbuildings this year, partly driven by a squeeze in differential between secondhand asset values and newbuilding prices, and cautions that an increase in finance from sources such as China could provide upside risk for contracting. Read more . . . (Subscription)

MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 24, 2017 1 Minute

Cracks Appear in Lines’ Growth Assumptions

The industry got off to a good start this year but oversupply with the pending delivery of a wave of newbuildings remains a problem, according to shipbroking and sector analysts, who question whether demand will be as strong as lines are hoping. Read more . . . (Subscription) 

MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 7, 2017 1 Minute

What are the prospects for LNG-carrier tonne-mile demand to 2020?

This year, 41 new LNG carriers are due for completion and the fleet is on course to hit the 500-ship landmark as early as April. Balancing LNG carrier demand against available cargoes is tricky in an oversupplied market. But will things get better this decade for tonne-mile demand? MSI director Stuart Nicoll speaks to LNG World Shipping. Read more . . .

MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 2, 2017 1 Minute

VIDEO: Chinese Newbuilding Orderbooks Could Swell Overnight

The Chinese shipbuilding orderbook is overstated but don’t underestimate the nation’s yard’s designs on the tanker market or how a single government edict could keep the same yards busy for the next two years. MSI director Dr Adam Kent talks to Tanker Shipping and Trade.  Watch the video . . .

 

MSI Uncategorized Leave a comment March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 1 Minute

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