tanker shipping

The more ocean shipping is in the news, the more attention it gets from tech founders and investors.

The cost of ship fuel looks like it’s about to topple records set in 2012 and 2008.

Shipping analysts rethink outlooks on crude and product tanker rates: already grim market appears even grimmer.

An attack on Ukraine could hike costs for shipowners and cargo shippers across the globe.

Could container shipping and tanker stocks end 2022 very differently than they began it?

For bulk commodity shipping, a rough start to the year. For container shipping, the profit bonanza continues.

Shares of Zim are flirting with a new peak while shares of ship-leasing, dry bulk and tanker companies lose ground.

After an exceptional year for ocean shipping, the data points to more action ahead in 2022.

Some public shipowners are turning toward more diverse fleets. Others are moving in the opposite direction.

Container, dry bulk and tanker stocks are down from recent highs. Temporary setback or something more?

Here’s how omicron variant could impact tanker, container and dry bulk shipping rates.

Marine fuel price up 47% since the beginning of the year

Price of low-sulfur fuel is rising faster than high-sulfur fuel. Ships with scrubbers stand to gain.

Crude and product tankers may be totally different markets, but 2021 proved how connected they are.

Crude-tanker owners continue to pile up huge losses, but hopes are high for next year.

Virtually every U.S.-listed shipping stock fell on a day that the S&P 500 hit a record high.

The ocean shipping boom is spreading across vessel types. Spot LNG shipping rates just topped $150,000 per day.

Cost of fuel consumed by container ships, bulkers and tankers is effectively at a seven-year high.

Dry bulk shares suffer double-digit declines, with tanker and container stocks also caught up in the sell-off.

Dry bulk and LNG shipping stocks now at 52-week peaks with container stocks not far from the top.

Despite epic container rates and hefty dry bulk profits, stocks fell by double digits over the past three weeks.

An in-depth look at CEO compensation in container shipping, bulk shipping and the cruise industry

More box ships, bulkers and tankers are changing hands than ever before — good news for ship values and stocks.

More problems loom for importers of Asian containerized goods and tanker slump could last even longer.

Rising fuel costs are yet another woe for containerized cargo shippers, while widening spreads should benefit ships with scrubbers.

Environmental regs could extend future dry bulk and tanker upside, while consolidation could change curve of container-shipping cycle.

Trans-Atlantic product tanker rates have spiked, but a quick pipeline restart would curb future upside.

Tanker execs explain lack of distress sales and scrapping this time around, and why new orders will be more curtailed.

COVID has been great for stocks. In ocean shipping, container and dry bulk shares rode the wave. Tankers stocks sank.

‘Bigger is better’ is the mantra of public tanker companies. The just-announced INSW-Diamond S merger is a step in that direction.

The longer the Suez saga continues, the greater the container, tanker and dry bulk shipping impacts. There could be big losers — and winners.

Deutsche Bank’s Amit Mehrotra on how long import surge could last and upside potential for container, dry bulk and tanker stocks.

Tanker and bulker spot rates can go sub zero — some tanker rates are there now. What do the negative numbers really mean?

Container, dry bulk and tanker stocks push forward. Biggest winner since mid-2020: Danaos, up (this is not a typo) 1,202%.

Analysts tally tanker fallout after OPEC+ stuns market with decision to hold the line of production cuts.

If ocean freight rates have legs, analysts see much more room for the secondhand ship values to run — which should, in turn, boost stocks.

It’s not just container stocks rising. Shipping stocks are up for everything from bulkers to tankers to gas carriers.

Long grind ahead for crude tankers: Executives and analysts don’t see recovery until second half — if not later.

ZIM just completed the first U.S. shipping IPO in over five years. Here’s a look back at shipping’s wild multidecade ride on Wall Street.

Higher fuel prices are bad news for box shippers. Higher fuel spreads are good news for owners with scrubber-fitted fleets.

A look back at 2020’s shipping roller coaster: how container sector emerged as ‘surprise rock star’ and tankers peaked early, then plunged.

Chances slim for 2021 shipping equity offerings, but a container-liner IPO prospect remains on the table.

It’s not just container shipping that’s rolling in profits. LPG tanker rates are hitting new highs on Asian demand for U.S. propane.

Container shipping stocks are back to pre-COVID levels whereas many tanker and bulker stocks are down by double-digits year-to-date.

First, Spire collects the ship-movement data from orbit. Then algorithms use that data to reveal the patterns of global shipping.

The total market capitalization of U.S.-listed ocean shipping stocks has plunged 34% in 2020, but there are reasons for hope in 2021.

Worries mount for crude tankers: dividend cuts, the pandemic, a stubborn floating-storage hangover … and now newbuild chatter.

As COVID hospitalizations surge and business restrictions mount, could U.S. importers be overshooting the mark?

“Winter is Coming” is a warning in House Stark and usually a blessing for tankers. But there’s nothing usual about 2020.

The one-two punch of the Pfizer vaccine and Joe Biden’s victory will affect container and tanker shipping in multiple ways.

Euronav exec curses crude-tanker market (literally). Scorpio exec pitches product-tanker promise and throws shade at crude side.

A look back at the days after the 2016 presidential election and the strange case of “The Donald Trump Shipping Stock Boom.”

What happens next at the IMO will affect oceangoing ship capacity — and freight rates — for decades to come.

New Kpler data reveals slow pace of floating-storage unwind and steady fall in crude-tanker utilization.

Sequel to “The Shipping Man” asks whether ESG will kill the old-school style of traditional shipowners.

Cargo mix and larger locks kept Panama Canal volumes rising despite headwinds.

A “blue sweep” win for Democrats could be good for container ships, bad for tankers.

Shipping CEOs see an increasing risk of a global economic crisis in the decade ahead.

Marine fuel prices are down 30% year-on-year despite the IMO 2020 regulation.

Ocean shipping stocks remain mired in a sea of red. A bad year is getting worse.

Amid talk of more floating storage, Kpler data reveals most of round-one storage volume is still on the water.

Crude-tanker rates on the benchmark Middle East-Asia run are now deep in the red.

McKinsey warns that global shocks will become more frequent and shippers must improve the resiliency of their supply chains.

COVID-19 could ignite geopolitical clashes and cause “meltdown” in U.S. consumer demand.

Will Iran retaliate after America commandeers four Iranian gasoline shipments?

Asia crude drawdown slashes both the “tons” and the “miles” in the ton-mile equation.

When times get tough, crude-tanker owner DHT starts buying. Times are getting tough.

M&A is being blocked by weak share pricing among buyers and lack of desperation among sellers.

Euronav and Scorpio Tankers highlight attractive fundamentals after floating storage wraps up.

Timothy M. Murray had guided vessels in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey for more than eight years.

Robintrack.net data reveals what retail traders are buying and when. The question is: Why?

An analysis of daily traded values and volumes of tanker and dry bulk stocks.

Will tanker sector see summer lull or more action ahead?

Top Ships, Seanergy, Castor and Globus tap equity markets to buy vessels.

Nordic American Tankers is the best stock performer among larger listed ship owners. Scorpio Bulkers is the worst.

Most floating storage has yet to be unloaded while delays in China are mounting.

Tanker rates haven’t been this strong at this time of year for a half-decade.

Challenge to shipping M&A: No one wants to sell in a downturn.

Global trade fallout from the crew-repatriation crisis has begun — and looks poised to snowball.

Shipboard COVID cases will make it even harder to roll back travel restrictions that block crew changes.

Long-term institutional investors still steer clear of shipping shares — with good reason.

Tanker rates have plunged as predicted. How long until a recovery?

More forgiving sanctions approach would avoid rate surge seen after COSCO sanctions.

Ships could be idled as thousands of seafarers refuse contract extensions.

Institutional sellers offset retail buyers of supertanker stocks.

Warning sign for tanker investors as US crude exports begin to reverse course.

The stock market is back to pre-COVID levels. Shipping shares still have some catching up to do.

Banner day on Wall Street buoys tanker names as pressure builds.

Trump administration seeks to squeeze crude exports from Venezuela.

Rates for ocean transport of propane could surge if the worst of the coronavirus crisis is past.

“Nowcasting” platform uses ship-tracking data to detect coronavirus fallout.

Future cargo flows at escalating risk from inaction on stranded seafarers.

Diamond S boss sees tanker-market “trough” on the horizon.

Are larger funds now heading for the exits and giving up on tanker stocks?

Shipping analyst Michael Webber sees tanker-stock upside if coronavirus recovery falters.

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have always been good for tanker rates and stocks — until now.

U.S.-listed tanker stocks boast double-digit gains on historically awful day for crude-oil pricing.

Ocean shipping post-pandemic: What changes lie ahead for supply, demand, stocks and debt?

Crude-tanker demand should continue to rise. Will stock prices follow suit?

Plunging demand on land has yet to be fully felt by ocean shipping