Weekly Briefing: Box grinch forewarns festive relief | Tankers mull scale while gas burns bright | Dry bulk slides
Lloyd’s List’s weekly headline view of the stories shaping the key shipping markets
Maersk rerouting a single containership away from Felixstowe was enough to resurrect the Christmas cancellation headlines — it’s just not clear which Christmas we are talking about. Tankers are ignoring the 13th consecutive month of poor headlines and choosing to focus on John Fredriken’s latest run at Euronav instead, which is more entertaining at least. And in dry the capesize spot rates may have been sliding from the giddy heights, but the overall picture remains pretty rosy