Shipyard Prices: Up, Up and Away?
While most of the interest in the tanker market may focus on rates,…
Greeks and Norwegians Talk Ships
The Twelfth Annual Shipping Conference of the Hellenic and the Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce…
Iran – On a Collision Course
The United Nations Security Council may take up the issue of trade sanctions…
Now Batting Clean Up….
The review each year of the largest charterers for both clean products and crude…
Worldscale Flat Up!
The development of the “Worldscale” rate system is an extremely useful convention for chartering…
The Tallest and the Strongest
Now that the 2005 National Championship College Football (American style) have been settled its time to look at the…
OPEC on OPEC
OPEC’s website (www.opec.org) has a lot of interesting information on its plans to expand…
Brazil– Heavy, but Sweet
Brazil is South America’s largest nation occupying more than half of the continent…