
Record-breaking NSR traffic highlights growing Russia-China partnership
The 2024 transit season on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has reached unprecedented levels, confirming its status as an increasingly vital corridor for trade, particularly
The 2024 transit season on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has reached unprecedented levels, confirming its status as an increasingly vital corridor for trade, particularly
As we are entering 2025, it’s a good opportunity to look back at the year that just passed. Multiple challenges that affected maritime shipping in
The dry bulk market is bracing for a turbulent 2025, with Baltic indexes slipping to year lows. After a strong 2024, asset prices are now
The container vessel market is undergoing some critical and structural changes, led by the rising regulatory pressure on carbon footprint and vessel efficiency. Carriers are
After the first semester of 2024 ended, PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom issued an analysis showing the year-on-year TEU growth in the top European container ports.
2023, characterized by the drawback of Covid impact and the new Red Sea crisis effects, still showed positive results for the top container carriers who
Lately, container articles have been dominated by breaking news coming from years of supply chain disruptions due to global incidents and occurrences. Today we would like
As stated by the international shipping organization BIMCO, during 2024 a total amount of 478 container ships with a capacity of 3.1 million TEU is
Since the second half of 2022 container shipping is facing declining demand and growing capacity. BIMCO, as stated in the “Container Shipping Market Overview and
It might seem a bit late for this news, but this is exactly the right time to talk about them again, the 2M. Last January