Category: Energy News Beat

Geneva Dry Dialogues: Western Bulk

Energy News Beat Returning to Geneva Dry this April is Torbjorn Gjervik, who since last year’s summit has been promoted to CEO of Western Bulk Chartering, a Norwegian firm which tends to have anywhere between 100 and 150 ships on its books at any given time. While looking forward to the event, Gjervik is not […]

Robbers attack tanker in Singapore Strait

Energy News Beat A Greece-flagged tanker was boarded yesterday by two knife-wielding individuals while transiting eastbound in the Singapore Strait, the latest in a string of robbery incidents in the area. The attack took place approximately 2.7 nautical miles northwest of Indonesia’s Pemping Island, according to UK maritime security specialists Ambrey. The tanker was sailing […]

Crew rescued from blaze on boxship in Red Sea

Energy News Beat MarineTraffic / Bjorn S Bjornesjo The crew of the boxship that abandoned the ship which caught fire in the Red Sea has been rescued unharmed. The Hong Kong-flagged boxship ASL Bauhinia exploded and caught fire some 226 km northwest of Hodeidah, Yemen, in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday. The […]

Shipping’s ultimate Year of the Snake fortune guide published today

Energy News Beat The January issue of Splash Extragives readers the ultimate guide to shipping prospects in the Year of the Snake.  The Lunar New Year is not starting too well with many sectors struggling to break even in January.  The cross-sector ClarkSea Index, a weighted barometer covering all shipping segments, eased back by 8% […]

2025 will see fewer but better hires in commercial shipping

Energy News Beat ContributionsOperations Paul Ratcliffe provides readers with highlights from Ignition Global’s 2024 Commercial Shipping Leaders Survey. Hiring in commercial shipping should be getting easier. The talent war of 2021–22 has ended, and dry bulk bonuses are cooling. Inflation has eased, remuneration policies have adjusted, and salary expectations have mellowed—making compensation easier to manage. […]

Trump’s Energy Vision

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories How a Chinese AI Startup Just Shook the Tech Market Amid Security Concerns January 28, 2025 Clark Savage January 27, 2025 – The tech landscape was rocked today as shares of several major U.S. tech companies plummeted due to the introduction of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup whose chatbot rivals […]

Containers: Snakes and ladders

Energy News Beat The container shipping freight market has felt like a game of snakes and ladders since the pandemic. Shippers negotiate the trade board, hoping to make steady progress. Sometimes the rates they pay climb exponentially up a ladder for a while, for instance when the pandemic and the Red Sea crisis caused elevated […]

Dry cargo: A case of snakebite

Energy News Beat For those born in the Year of the Ox, such as 1949, the year that Chairman Mao declared the Chinese republic, the coming Year of the Snake is forecast to be a year of stability and productivity. President Xi would presumably settle for that. The dry bulk freight market however has been […]

Tankers: Year of the VLCC?

Energy News Beat You can take your pick of a wide variety of opinions about what Trump 2.0 will do to the global oil markets, but it’s a safe bet that nearly all those opinions amount to one effect: disruption. The US president has already dropped a heavy hint to Saudi Arabia to produce more […]

January 2025 Review

Energy News Beat The Houthis of Yemen rowed back from attacking merchant shipping following January 19’s historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, potentially bringing an end to the 14-month-long Red Sea shipping crisis. The Houthis said so long as the ceasefire remains in place, international merchant ships may now transit the Red Sea. However, […]