Baltic Exchange adds LNG-powered vessel indices

 

 

 

 

Nakilat LNG carrier Mesaimeer (Image: Nakilat)

Egipto busca reactivar el tráfico de barcos a través del Canal de Suez

25 de febrero de 2021, 7:00 a.m. EST

“ Comercialícelo mejor y vendrán. "  Esa ligera variación de la inspiración de Kevin Costner en" Field of Dreams "es lo que Egipto espera que ayude a impulsar el tráfico a pesar de la pandemia de coronavirus y su impacto en el transporte marítimo.

 
 

El presidente Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordenó esta semana a los funcionarios diseñar lo que describió como una "estrategia de marketing flexible" para ayudar a impulsar el tráfico y los ingresos a través de la vital vía fluvial internacional en un intento por compensar el impacto de la crisis Covid-19.

 
 

Si bien la directiva fue corta en detalles, es fundamental para la nación del norte de África que ha visto caer fuentes de ingresos clave

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Massive Inflation in Shipping Costs. And the Reasons

 

 

 

by Wolf Richter • Jan 16, 2021 • 145 Comments

Rates for trucking, ocean containers, airfreight, parcels, you name it, the costs for shipping consumer & industrial goods are surging.

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.

The dollar-amount spent by shippers, such as manufacturers or retailers, on shipping their goods jumped by 13% in December from a year earlier, driving the Cass Freight Index of Expenditures to a new record (red line). The amount spent on freight is a function of shipment volume and freight rates:

The Cass Freight Index covers shipments by all modes of transportation, but is heavily concentrated on shipments by truck, with truckload accounting for over half of the expenditures, followed by less-than-truckload (LTL), rail, parcel services, etc. It does not cover commodities.

The freight rates embedded in the index jumped

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TANKERS: Texas freeze boosts USGC Aframax freight rates to nine-month highs

 

 

 

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TANKERS: Texas freeze boosts USGC Aframax freight rates to nine-month highs

Author  Nicole Baquerizo     Catherine Wood 

Aframax trans-Atlantic freight spiked over 38% from Feb. 17

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