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World Shipping Routes

Tim — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:40 +0000

I found this map of the world shipping routes at wired.com courtesy of Bernd Blasius. It is interesting to see where the world’s shipping goes and how much of it there is.

Global Shipping Map

I need your vote

Tim — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:07:18 +0000

I am attempting to get published on another writing venture and have submitted a proposal to ChangeThis.com for one of their manifestos. This is in an area completely different from my usual topics. Go over to the link and give me a vote:

http://www.changethis.com/proposals/1736

Baltic Indices for Last Week

Tim — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:32:30 +0000

Here is how the Baltic Indices fared last week and a couple of the new shipping stock indices:

Baltic Dry Index (BDI): +18.7%
Baltic Capesize Index (BCI): +23.0%
Baltic Panamax Index (BPI): +12.6%
Baltic Supramax Index (BSI): +12.9%
Baltic Handysize Index (BHSI): +6.2%
Baltic Dirty Tanker (BDTI): -7.5%
Baltic Clean Tanker (BCTI): -3.3%

Here are the results of the corresponding stock indices, courtesy of Capital Link Shipping:

CL Dry Bulk Index: +16.4%
CL Tanker Index: +5.0%

After several weeks of steep declines, the Baltic Dry Indices rebounded strongly last week. Dry bulk stocks followed right along. Spot tanker rates continue to erode and I think some of the tanker stocks will not have positive earnings reports. Earnings for the shipping companies start coming out later this week, so we will have some real news to write about.

Note to email subscribers

Tim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:48:19 +0000

I noticed on the email I received on yesterday’s post did not include the video. You can visit the post here and watch.

http://www.shippingstocksblog.com/2009/06/video-of-navios-ceo/