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Alex Younevitch is the managing editor for EMEA freight markets at S&P Global Platts. Full Bio
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Mar 2018
  • Bunker Fuel
  • Shipping
  • Dry Freight

Why the container industry needs to replace BAF with a new pricing tool

The container industry has an elephant in the room. It’s big, smelly and has some serious boundary issues. Its name is the Bunker Adjustment Factor and recently it has grown so large that market players can barely see each other behind its fat bulk

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Jan 2018
  • Bunker Fuel
  • Coal
  • Shipping
  • Dry Freight

IMO 2020, a shipping regulation that may reshape global coal trade

It is not uncommon for people in various commodity sectors to believe that their markets exist in some kind of a happy bubble, where only the obvious supply and demand forces or targeted regulations can make or ruin their day

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Jan 2017
  • Shipping
  • Transportation

Zombies or revenants: Who will roam the shipping market in 2020?

Now, if someone, who was long considered dead is suddenly walking around, it is not necessarily a miracle of biblical proportions. So before you raise your hands in joyful prayer for the holy revenant, make sure he's not shambling, growling and craving for...

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