Mark Williams

Opec may have finished its extended minsters’ online meeting by the time you read this. They have struggled over a decision on how much oil to produce. There is much…

This week, I spoke as part of a panel discussing the energy transition and its effects on the offshore shipping industry, part of the Seatrade Maritime Middle East 2020 event.…

It’s not easy to get an idea of how big the global market for hydrogen as a fuel is going to be. In April this year, a US research company…

For most of the past 25 years I have travelled most months, often two or three times a month and sometimes ten or 15 times a month when on one…

I’ve been wondering why the bulk carrier freight market has been uninspiring of late when everyone usually expects it to be enjoying its seasonal peak. Is it something to do…

Veteran readers of my macro commentaries, from Points of View at HSBC, to Hot Topics at Braemar, Macro Topics at Affinity and Macro Macchiato here at Shipping Strategy, will know…

Copper prices have hit multi-year heights. Copper has recovered from below USD 2.00 per pound at the bottom of the Coronavirus outbreak in China to around USD 3.17 on Monday…

After two consecutive loss-making quarters for the first time in over thirty years, ExxonMobil’s strategy of increasing oil output has been shredded by the world-wide slump in oil demand this…

As US shale producers struggle with a slump in demand related to the pandemic and a glut of crude oil in the global market, US national crude oil production has…

The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (CNBS) has released economic data for the first three quarters of 2020. These are important statistics for the shipping industry as China is the…