Container shipping liner Hapag-Lloyd will be able to cope with the advent of U.S. tariffs on Chinese products, its chief executive told reporters on Tuesday. “It is too early to push the panic button,” CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said in the remarks published on Wednesday,...

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The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index, which measures shipping rates for vessels transporting dry bulk commodities, rose for the fourth consecutive session on Wednesday, buoyed by rising rates across panamax and supramax vessel segments. The index, which...

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Shipping costs for liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes have tumbled to five-year lows as newly built carriers added to the global fleet outpace shipping demand and shorter average journey times have increased vessel availability. Atlantic freight rates assessed for...

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Asia’s middle distillates markets fell as prompt paper activity continued to record a sell-off ahead of contract expiration next week, though some hopes on the widening east-west price spreads capped weakness. The diesel February exchange of futures for swaps (EFS)...

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Gross U.S. coal exports in June 2024 totaled 10 million short tons, the most in a month since October 2018, data from our Short-Term Energy Outlook data browser show. Annual average U.S. coal exports were 9.0 million short tons in 2024. U.S. coal exports have...

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