U.S. markets are slowly coming back up after Hurricane Harvey, but there is still a lot of uncertainty. Europe has been very slow over the past week, ...

The effects of Hurricane Harvey have yet to emerge, but most analysts concur that in the short-term there will be changes to established product flows ...

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With the exception of Europe, there have been few signs of the fabled summer doldrums in either the U.S. or Asia, where rising demand for vessel space ...

Adrian Brown is away. His column will reappear next week. Adrian Brown is a senior market analyst for chemicals and base oils with SSY Shipbrokers, Lo ...

The U.S. market remains fundamentally active. There are a few signs that Europe is slowing down as the holiday season gets under way. Asian markets ha ...

U.S. markets are still uncharacteristically active this week, while Europe and certain routes in Asia are slightly slower. U.S. Gulf It is still busy ...

The U.S. is still remarkably active and freights are firm. Both Europe and Asia have some quiet sectors, but there are also routes where more activity ...

Business is still brisk on certain routes out of the U.S. Gulf. European and Asian markets are similar to each other in some ways as neither are busy, ...

The United States market is still going strong. European markets are just about all unchanged from last week, while Asia sees both positive and negati ...

The U.S. market is on a more even keel, with a few routes even showing strength. European short-sea business has been active, but deep-sea has been sl ...

The U.S. market has seen a slight upturn in demand, whereas Europe is merely treading water. Asia, inundated with open tonnage during a period of slac ...

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Negativity pervades the global shipping market, especially the deep-sea routes, and while such sentiment is completely justified in some areas, its le ...

The shipping market worldwide – producers, traders, ship owners and brokers – will be happy to shrug off the last couple of months, when a ...

There are soft undertones to almost every market, with substantial reductions in some freights, particularly out of the U.S. U.S. Gulf Ironically, the ...

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Europe remains pretty much unchanged with a steady flow of requirements. Asia, however, is languishing amidst muted activity. The United States, too, ...

A combination of public holidays and weaker crude oil values have kept petrochemical trading deals to a minimum. Freights have consequently come under ...

Many countries celebrated Labor Day on May 1, which curtailed business opportunities for a large chunk of the global fleet. Business had otherwise sta ...