For three decades Martin Stopford has been known for his work as a leading shipping economist, with his market musings monitored by attentive shipping executives. Recently Stopford has become impassioned by what he sees as probably the greatest...

Fireworks signaled the end of Nor-Shipping 2015 on Thursday. We take a look back at who said what over the last week.

Shipping markets guru Martin Stopford declared the existing business model of the industry a “dead parrot” on Wednesday and said that a new management based solution was needed.

Clarksons has completed its acquisition of Norwegian rival RS Platou.

Clarksons has passed the 90% threshold of RS Platou shareholder acceptance to proceed with its GBP281.2m ($440.8m) takeover of its Norwegian rival.

Shipbrokers and shipping services group Clarksons reported a 60% increase in profit to GBP9.8m for the first half, from GBP6.1m in H1 2013.

Owners of large tankers may still have been losing money as second quarter results of listed companies seem to show, but confidence in the sector appears to be growing. Increased earnings in the second quarter and further increases at the start of...

Listening to shipping research guru Martin Stopford explain what he sees as the future of major shipping cities on Wednesday was always going to give a lot of food for thought. To make it just that a bit more interesting Stopford was being quizzed...

The spike in VLCC rates towards the end of 2013 did little to improve the outturn for this class of vessels for the year as a whole. Average earnings for VLCCs, according to Clarksons Research, averaged a miserable $16,009 a day for the year...

We take a look back at who said what on Seatrade Global’s exclusive live coverage of Marintec China 2013 and the issues that got people talking.