A worse-than-expected start to 2022 for dry cargo is far from enough to change the expectations of Golden Ocean and CEO Ulrik Andersen. The market will still be lucrative and may be so well into 2024, he tells ShippingWatch.

There’s no doubt that 2021 was a miserable year for the global tanker industry. But 2022 could end up strong, many parties say. Maersk Product Tankers is more doubtful. ”2022 won’t be an amazing year,” CEO Christian M. Ingerslev tells ShippingWatch.

TotalEnergies ignores shipping’s climate adaptions in the company’s prognosis for shipping’s future fuel consumption, researcher says in criticism. Among other things, TotalEnergies supports LNG.

Container line OOCL, owned by China’s Cosco, doubled its revenue in 2021, with the top line for Q4 alone surging by 101.4 percent, the carrier says. This major increase happens despite a dive in container liftings during the quarter.

If the European Parliament’s significant change to the EU’s proposal for shipping’s carbon quotas is carried through, the Emissions Trading System will go from having polluters pay to polluters being paid, says the World Shipping Council.