Maritime Strategies International has added an Annual Efficiency Ratio (AER) calculation of vessel CO2 emissions to over 21,000 ships in its HORIZON asset valuation platform. Read more
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Market efficiency could rain on the parade despite comparisons to supercycle
The ability to separate exuberance from inefficiency is key to understanding how long higher earnings are likely to be maintained. Read more, written by MSI’s Managing Director, Adam Kent, in TradeWinds
Japanese bulkers pulled from sales market in hope of better 2021 price prospects
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
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