For sure, you’re wondering about what’s coming next, in 2018. How you should kick off 2018? Sure you don’t need my advises for the next hours before the closing on 2017 and the start of 2018 (ie when you poor yourself another drink and you don’t even want to wonder if it’s reasonable or not). […]

Read More insightful shipping market comments, as always*

thoughts of the day before you all go after champagne and Christmas festivities. Some are very good with the “fix and forget” concept. Which as all of you know, is quite often related to the brokers, who would die and sell his/her (yes a broker can also be a woman) mother to fix this ship […]

Read More “fix and forget” vs “fix to forget”

I don’t think you need to go to the opthalomologist to check if your vision is still ok in order to try to understand the market. Market is softening heavily and as it happens from time to time, no matter (or so) what’s the last done to provide some kind of guidance for the next […]

Read More all about people

If you were waiting for BDI fixtures’ list to try to figure out how’s market moving, well get you have you answer. With a list of 8 fixtures done (putting aside the « recent » / « last week ») we can tell market has started to consider the « pause mode » and likely to be similar in the next […]

Read More Market is doing last minute shopping calls

On the chartering side, let’s face it, here, at least, it has been a fairly boring day with not too much fresh biz to chew on and keep my falcon eyes busy to spot out the perfect lady fitting the nicest stem (or vice & versa). We are now entering into the next stage, the […]

Read More You can be wrong for all the right reasons

You must have seen this info reported in various reports and for instance from my friends here Brazil governmnt published decree containing the procedures that importers have to follow to be able to buy & unload Russian #wheat in Brazil ports. So Russian wheat is officially allowed for import to Brazil. But the issues are […]

Read More freight for russian wheat to Brazil

Some nice information on today’s Bmti handies ex Continent/baltic 34kdwt being proposed $20,000 for quick coastal coal business. Kind of nice money if Owners managing to find another employment while open during the week 52 28kdwt being proposed $10,500 dely continent via baltic to Portugal. Running some voyage estimates here, if I’m right, bss Klaipeda […]

Read More Owners open in Spore need to wait for Valentine’s day to get his premium to end up in Atlantic. lovers’ dinner is screwed

what if the shipping would be a cycle? Some experts having a theory about this, my good old friends experts still struggling to define precisely the lenght of each cycle… let us help them a bit, last time BDI went from below 1,700 to above we need to go back to end november 2013, on […]

Read More pre-christmas boarding last call

Can you remember last time BDI were above 1,700 ? Need to fly back to 8th jan 2014.      Can you remember last time BCI were above 4,150 ? Need to fly back to 13th dec 2014. Can you remember last time BPI were above 1,588 ? Well appart from the very few days (couple of days in April […]

Read More no need for models to have fun in shipping