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Potentially Good News For Smaller Ships

A potential record US harvest could help buoy rates for small to mid-size ship rates.   What was a relatively mild and wet spring and summer has created conditions for what is setting up to be one of the nation’s biggest harvests.   The U.S. Department of Agriculture is projecting a total corn crop of 12.954bn bushels, […]

Food or Fuel for Thought?

Energy prices are showing absolutely no signs of abating; those peak oil theorists may be on to something (at least in the short-run). We just don’t see oil prices coming down significantly without a considerable reduction in demand; through improved fuel efficiency or a considerable economic slowdown. Now that we have settled that, we want […]