SSY Blog

The LNG shipping market felt the negative ramifications of Covid for the majority of 2020. ...

After a year when China’s dry bulk demand helped prevent the Covid-driven global contraction in dry bulk trade from being even more severe, demand prospects for 2021 hinge on not just China’s continued strength of demand, but also on the scale of recovery in the rest of the world. ...

With the Covid pandemic causing hardship across the world, this year’s Simpson Spence Young (SSY) Charity Challenge was all about raising money for local food charities ...

A new round of Chinese product export quotas could result in a rise in exports in the final months of the year in order to reduce high stock levels ...

Maritime greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for approximately 3% of global CO2 emissions, have come under increased scrutiny in recent years, not least following the 2015 UNFCCC Paris Agreement. ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has almost doubled its forecast for Chinese corn imports in the current trade year to September, implying significant shifts in trade flows. ...

Zinc has outperformed base metal peers so far this year and we look through the most recent data to ascertain whether the pace of price gains can continue. ...

Strong volatility and new market participants helped drive a record volume of 2.193m tonnes of coking coal futures cleared on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) this October... ...