Topic: Base cargo

Coronavirus and IMO2020 cause Baltic Dry Index to crash

Baltic Dry IndexThe Baltic Dry Index has dropped to its lowest point in four years time as a result of the coronavirus, IMO 2020 and seasonality. The index currently stands at 487 points, down more than 1,100...Read more

04-02-2020|Comment|author: Adnan Bajic

Port of Rotterdam: “We see room to grow our breakbulk throughput”

The Port of Rotterdam saw its conventional breakbulk volumes grow with 3.1% in the first quarter of 2019. The lifting of the American import ban on Russian aluminium had a lot to do with that,...Read more

03-05-2019|Comment|author: Adnan Bajic

Again less breakbulk for Port of Antwerp

Quarterly resultsEurope’s biggest breakbulk port, Antwerp, posted another decline in throughput of conventional breakbulk cargoes. The port contributes the decrease to the “exceptional” first quarter of 2018 when anticipated US import levies drove a build-up of...Read more

29-04-2019|Comment|author: Adnan Bajic