Tonnage providers opt for time-charters in anticipation of increasing asset values as freight rates projected to recover from the virus crisis. Read more in TradeWinds
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MSI and Baltic Webinar
Shipping Cycles and Covid-19. MSI director David Jordan appeared as guest speaker on the Baltic and ICS lecture series. Click here to listen to the webinar
Seatrade Webinar Audio recording
Seatrade hosted a Webinar featuring our South East Asia Regional Director, David Jordan, discussing the COVID-19 pandemic. If you would like to have a listen, click here
Industry leader: Adam Kent, Managing Director, Maritime Strategies International
Dr Adam Kent joined Maritime Strategies International (MSI), where he is now managing director, in the early 2000s as an analyst and was instantly hooked on both shipping and market analysis. Read more about the man at the helm of MSI here in Riviera’s industry leader piece
Take a look at MSIs Coronavirus escalation scenario analysis in our latest Foresight piece
IMO 2020 – lower sulphur means higher freight rates
‘From our discussions with Maritime Strategies International (MSI) and other active participants in the freight market, we now expect a higher uptake of scrubbers. We estimate that 20-25% of the larger Capesize vessels will have scrubbers fitted by end 2020. For the mid-size Panamax vessels, the uptake is lower at 5%.’ Read more
Littel Cheer from Lunar New Year for bulk carrier market
While tanker owners toast their good fortune, bulker operators are downing a cocktail of higher costs, weaker demand and a supply side influx. Read more
MSI predicts dismal Q1 for bulker operators
Dry bulk carrier operators don’t seem to have a lot of reasons to be jolly as they enter 2020 with higher fuel costs, weaker demand, and a supply-side influx swirl into a perfect storm. Read more
Scrubber-fitted vessels the early winners in IMO 2020 transition
A volatile first half could see big moves in hi-lo price differential but the trend of falling HSFO prices gives the advantage to users of scrubber systems, says Maritime Strategies International. Read more
Now you see them: dry bulk market haunted by phantom orderbook
Will Fray comments in Splash- ‘The late reporting of orders to qualify ships as IMO tier II compliant fails to mask a continued fall in 2019 contracting’ – Read more