With the United States and Iran breaking the ceasefire again this week, the freight market has reacted sharply, resuming its upward trend within days as risk premia around the Strait of Hormuz returned. The Baltic Dirty Tanker Index and the benchmark Middle East...

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Geopolitical disruption, energy security concerns and the emergence of competing trade blocs are fundamentally altering the way shipping markets operate, according to speakers at a Baltic Exchange panel discussion at Posidonia. While panellists highlighted growing...

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After a brief, as it turns out, reversal of fortunes, crude oil exports from West Africa have turned negative once again, during the first half of 2026. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa said that “after a marginal decline in 2024, when global...

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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk freight index, which monitors rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, was up for the second session on Friday, rising about 1.2% to its highest since June 5 at 2,944 points. The capesize index, which typically transports...

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Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fifth-largest container shipping company, has signed an agreement with the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) on the use of shore power in the Port of Hamburg. With this agreement, the company confirms that it will use the available infrastructure...

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