Lloyd's List • December 6, 2025

Still just a trickle of US soyabeans to China despite trade deal

US soyabean sales to China remain limited; cargo loadings are just beginning

Lloyd's List • November 24, 2025

Diana Shipping announces cash bid to take over Genco

Diana bid for Genco is latest consolidation plan in dry bulk

Lloyd's List • November 18, 2025

Could shipping shares offer safe haven as broader stock market fears mount?

Shipping stocks might allow investors to offset exposure to headwinds

Lloyd's List • November 4, 2025

Port fee questions linger after shipping used as trade war ‘pawn’

More details have emerged on port fee suspension but uncertainty remains

Lloyd's List • October 16, 2025

US-listed shipowners still don’t know their liability from Chinese port fees

Chinese port fees expected to further 'fragment global' fleet

Lloyd's List • October 12, 2025

US ownership clause of Chinese port fees could cast ‘wide net’

Chinese port fees could have a significant market effect

Lloyd's List • September 11, 2025

Bulker fallout looms as trade tensions threaten US soyabean season

US grain exports look like they're poised to fall back

Lloyd's List • May 12, 2025

US-China trade war de-escalation was expected — but not this fast

Extreme whipsaws in trade policy continue, with major consequences for shipping demand.

Lloyd's List • April 2, 2025

‘Thermonuclear’ port fee-tariff combo: Shipping ‘disaster’ or will rates go ‘ballistic’?

No one really knows how this will play out for rates, although shipowners predict they will ultimately profit

Lloyd's List • March 25, 2025

Crunch time for US port fee threat as final Washington hearings begin

What happens next will be a litmus test of practicality versus ideology

Lloyd's List • March 15, 2025

Geopolitical tensions at Panama Canal still very high despite sale of ports

Shipping could face a major disruption if Trump is not bluffing about taking back the Panama Canal

Lloyd's List • March 12, 2025

US could face trade ‘apocalypse’ if Trump port fee plan isn’t killed

Business leaders warn of potentially catastrophic effects to US import costs, US export competitiveness, economy

Lloyd's List • February 23, 2025

Sweeping US plan to target Chinese ships would snare many non-Chinese operators

The US plans to charge up to $1.5m for every port call by a Chinese-built ship

Lloyd's List • February 19, 2025

The Daily View: Uncertainty is bad for demand growth

The geopolitical effect on rates is always an educated guess, but we now have a whole new level of guessing.

Lloyd's List • January 29, 2025

Why would US invade Panama? US Senate hearing gives rationale

Panama Canal route appears increasingly in jeopardy from US aggression

Lloyd's List • December 28, 2024

Trump claims Chinese troops run canal. ‘Nonsense,’ retorts Panama’s president

‘There are no Chinese soldiers in the canal, for the love of God,’ says Jose Raul Mulino, president of Panama

Lloyd's List • December 22, 2024

Trump to Panama: Reduce ‘ridiculous’ tolls or US will take back canal

‘This complete rip-off of our country will immediately stop,’ says Trump

Lloyd's List • December 18, 2024

The Daily View: It’s the demand, stupid

IN 1992, US political strategist James Carville coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid”. A variant for global bulk commodity shipping: “It’s the demand, stupid.”

Lloyd's List • December 17, 2024

Commodity shipping rates sink to new 2024 lows in ‘winter of discontent’

Tankers, bulkers and LNG carriers simultaneously and counter-seasonally slump

Lloyd's List • December 12, 2024

If stocks keep sinking, should owners keep buying back their own shares?

Listed owners pile more cash into buybacks as share prices continue to slump