Weekly Briefing: Tankers endure negative earnings | Box success uneven | Dry attracts investor attention
Lloyd’s List’s weekly headline view of the stories shaping the key shipping markets
This week: Before anyone gets too excited about oil price and talk of a super-cycle everyone would do well to remember that with lockdown measures across the world still restricting demand for transport fuels, tankers are still feeling the double whammy of reduced exports and inventories’ drawdowns. Meanwhile, the roaring success enjoyed by the container shipping sector since the demand recovery that emerged in the third quarter of 2020 has not been felt equally across the supply chain. And in dry bulk, the positive fundamentals are starting to attract investments