Finance
Keep informed with daily analysis and insight into shipping’s relationship with financial markets
including company results, credit reports and investment decisions
Cosco Shipping rides market tailwinds to 2024 earnings bonanza
CSH has highlighted Red Sea disruptions as a key market factor, which has led to a shortage of effective shipping capacity and kept spot rates highly elevated
OOCL posts bumper 2024 results thanks to late surge
Healthy transpacific and Asia-Europe rates mean OOCL registered a 30% growth in revenue despite a modest increase in liftings
Tanker stocks soar as US hammers Russia with new sanctions
New US sanctions targeting Russian oil exports were not a well-kept secret. Investors and freight futures traders have been placing their bets for days. Those wagers escalated hours before the embargoed Treasury Department press release finally came out
Cosco Shipping Energy expects robust profit growth for 2024
In 2024, the expected 17.2% profit growth for Cosco Shipping Energy is driven by a strong international oil shipping market and strategic fleet management
Former Guangzhou port chairman removed following corruption investigation
Li allegedly accepted nearly $180,000 in cash gifts from subordinates and individuals under his management. His deputy Huang Bo has taken over the top seat
Chinese owners surge to top spot for secondhand acquisitions in 2024
China also pips Greeks for newbuilding contracting though owners from the two countries were neck-and-neck for bulker, tanker, boxship and gas carrier orders
Another year, another massive gain for container shipping king MSC
The container liner industry is vastly more consolidated than tanker and dry bulk shipping, and one player in liner shipping, MSC, has relentlessly parlayed the past five years of profits into enormous capacity growth to bolster its market-leading share
Eletson’s battle with fund that became foe is cautionary tale for our times
For an investment of around $5m, an opportunist Canadian hedge fund has laid siege to a fleet worth hundreds of millions
‘Lots of contradictions’ in P&I renewal talks, market sources report
Feedback on annual negotiations for blue cards varies considerably
Diana to spend $23m on buyback after final result of share offer
Greek bulker owner among a slew of publicly listed companies seeing buybacks as a good use of balance sheet cash
Kexim pledges $8.2bn to strengthen South Korean shipbuilding
Budget increase driven by expectations of potential co-operation with the US and India, because both countries aim to enhance their maritime competitiveness using South Korea’s advanced shipbuilding technology
Euroseas plans three-vessel Nasdaq spin-off
Euroseas has announced plans to spin-off three of its older ships into a new company and list it on the Nasdaq, and expects the separate entities will achieve better valuations separately
You must sign in to use this functionality
Authentication.SignIn.HeadSignInHeader
Email Article
All set! This article has been sent to [email protected].
All fields are required. For multiple recipients, separate email addresses with a semicolon.
Please Note: Only individuals with an active subscription will be able to access the full article. All other readers will be directed to the abstract and would need to subscribe.