Day: February 21, 2025

Digital Container Shipping Association unveils latest upgrades

Energy News Beat ContainersTech DCSA The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has released the final versions of its Booking 2.0 and Bill of Lading 3.0 standards. The enhanced standards introduce beneficial cargo owners and forwarders to features that boost security, regulatory compliance and efficiency.  DCSA’s standards create a common framework for the container shipping industry, […]

Vortexa debuts port-to-port tanker freight pricing platform

Energy News Beat Puerto Rico Analytics firm Vortexa has launched Anywhere Freight Pricing—the world’s first port-to-port freight pricing platform for energy trading.  The solution provides instant pricing for over 50,000 active and 70m possible clean petroleum product (CPP) freight routes. “Since the beginning of global energy markets, traders have strived for instant, unlimited access to […]

Inflation Spikes to 4.0% in Japan, Much Worse than in the US. BOJ Babied its Rate to Just 0.5%, with More Baby Hikes in View

Energy News Beat The strategy: Let inflation rip to bring the horrible debt-to-GDP ratio down. Households & yield investors pay for it. Turns out, no free lunches after all. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The “all items” Consumer Price Index for Japan surged by 4.02% in January year-over-year, the worst inflation rate since January 2023, and beyond […]