Short Sea Market Report

Some time ago we realised there was a genuine demand for data and information on the short sea market but a conspicuous lack of any available to which end we started writing a weekly market report which we later enhanced by creating our own short sea index. For a small annual subscription HC can supply these reports on a weekly basis (examples of which are shown below) which provide a useful snapshot of current market conditions and developing trends together with historical data illustrated by graphs showing fluctuations in the short sea index and fuel prices.

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Short Sea Market Report w/e 09.03.12

Static. A different word to steady (for a change) but to all intents and purposes it means exactly the same thing. The reality, yet again, in terms of business concluded, is that there hasn’t been enough fundamental movement in any particular direction to justify a headline that suggests anything has actually changed. In any given [...]

Steady/borderline weaker. It’s still marginal to say the least but for the sake of trying to find some variance in an otherwise static scenario then the market seemed to lean more towards down than it did towards up this week. Admittedly that’s not a lot to work with but the Short Sea rarely moves dramatically [...]

Steady. At this time of year the level of activity between the Christmas and New Year holidays is usually so subdued as to be unrepresentative of ‘normal’ trading conditions and in that respect there isn’t much point in trying to draw any serious conclusions from the limited amount of business done. All in all steady [...]

Steady/flat. Steady would probably have covered it but the word on its own also perhaps implies a degree of stability or a reasonable overall level and so the ‘flat’ is intended as a reminder that the market hasn’t gone anywhere since last week. It’s increasingly difficult to keep saying the same thing in a different [...]

Another year is all but over and consigned to the archives. As usual at this time of year, activity between the Christmas and New Year holidays is so limited that it is really impossible to report on in the usual way and there are too few examples from which to form any constructive conclusions. There [...]

So that was 2008. It’s been a year that could arguably be described as memorable but perhaps not necessarily for the right reasons. As is always the case at this time of year, overall market activity is disrupted by the holidays and unrepresentative of normal trading conditions to such an extent that there is no [...]

Steady. In a “borderline firmer” kind of way. The emerging pattern of the last few weeks has been one of increasing levels of activity and demand which have perversely had little or no impact on freight levels, and that’s exactly how it continues. Surely the main conclusion to be logically drawn from that is it [...]

Short Sea Market Report

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