Shipbroker SSY has taken a stake in Gothenburg-based Marine Benchmark, which uses freely available data, via Automatic Identification System signals. The data company has extensively surveyed greenhouse gas emissions for the world fleet and is in the running to provide a global benchmark relating to such data

MPC Capital claims the Albis deal will complement its technical management company, Ahrenkiel Tankers

The deal means that Howe Robinson will expand its dry cargo presence into the US market

Three years after its sale, Singapore Exchange-owned shipping bourse, the Baltic Exchange, is re-evaluating its role within global shipping, including changes to the deal struck with shipbrokers that provide its core data

Although volumes in the dirty tanker derivatives market have since fallen from the eight-year high in the week to October 14, the latest figure is more than double the five-year average

Broking saw the biggest slump in confidence in the three months to the end of August, according to the BDO survey