America’s trade reset and the coming reckoning for global shipping
By any honest reckoning, the United States has spent decades subsidising the prosperity of foreign economies through lopsided trade arrangements. While American markets remained...
From tariffs to Covid: How policy shockwaves remade shipping seasons
For more than a century, ocean shipping’s calendar has been as predictable as the tides. Importers and carriers could set their watches by the...
Rethinking oil refining: Why producers should go retail
At first glance, the idea that oil-producing nations should refine their own crude and sell it directly to consumers seems like common sense. It’s...
If British Columbia won’t bend, let Manitoba open seaport of Churchill
Canada’s oil export debate has stalled yet again on the Pacific coast, where British Columbia’s reflexive hostility to tankers chokes frustrates Alberta’s producers.
But while...
Silent cartel: How shipping giants and regulators converge to command the seas
Once upon a time, the open seas were a bustling, chaotic theatre of commerce, navigated by a colorful fleet of independent carriers, each jostling...
Why America’s economic strength lessens its risk of being targeted by radical Net-Zero states
As the world teeters on the edge of economic stagnation, one nation stands apart: the United States. It is the only major power both...
Can Trump’s merchant fleet survive the realities of global shipping?
The Trump administration’s push to revive a US-flagged merchant fleet under the SHIPS for America Act is bold, nostalgic, and politically charged.
It evokes the...
Africa and South America now shipping’s new hope as Houthi rockets and US tariffs...
As the United States pivots toward economic nationalism, imposing sweeping tariffs and recalibrating trade preferences, the Southern Hemisphere’s once overlooked continents, Africa and South...
Northern Sea Route: Arctic dreams, shifting tides of global trade play out in Russia
The Northern Sea Route (NSR), a 5,600-kilometre maritime corridor carved along Russia’s Arctic coastline, has emerged as a contested and evolving gateway between Europe...
Rough waters ahead for Great Lakes shipping as US protectionism tests good neighbours
The shipping arteries of the Great Lakes, stretching from Montreal to Milwaukee, are feeling the strain of renewed US protectionism and simmering trade tensions...