21 Apr

Earlier this year a friend and loyal follower of this blog suggested that I write an ‘outrageous predictions’ article where instead of timidly suggesting that the BDI might be quite strong, or that new carbon emission regulations would boost tonne-mile demand, I would write some really ridiculous predictions. I toyed with the idea for while, […]

13 Apr

I hadn’t been to Japan since before the pandemic, so I was really looking forward to getting back, seeing how things had changed, tasting the wonderful food (it’s not just sushi) and renewing contact with the many friends and contacts I have there, as well as making a few new friends too. An added bonus […]

31 Mar

If you ever want to get a feeling of how intricately the world is connected, and take the temperature of the health of globalization, you can do worse that spend a few minutes and watch people come and go and a busy hub airport, especially on that is not in the US, EU, UK, China […]

24 Mar

The unravelling of globalisation seems to continue to gather pace. Everywhere you look, there are signs of fragmentation as world trade fractures into different blocs. China has announced it will phase out US chips from Intel and AMD in government servers and computers. This follows on from the US banning the export of certain types […]

17 Mar

It’s never an easy phone call to make. I had called earlier in the day warning my client that we were expecting bad news, and now I was disturbing his lunch to confirm it. The buyers could not lift their subjects, the business they had in mind for the ship had not materialised at the […]