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Desks and topics
Everything we cover, from the quay to the currency desk.
Shipping
View AllShips, boxes, ports and the routes between them. What moves, what waits, and what it costs.
5 min
No One on the Bridge
3 min
The Manifest, Episode 40: Fog, Copper and the Crewless Ship
4 min
The Ship That Runs on Its Own Cargo
3 min
When the Lake Runs Low: How Shipowners Plan Around the Canal's Dry Season
3 min
First Ammonia Bunkering: Six Hours, One Hose, Nobody Smelled a Thing
Trade
View AllTariffs, rules of origin, customs and the agreements that decide where things are made and where they are allowed to go.
3 min
The Customs Broker's New Colleague Reads Invoices Faster Than She Does
3 min
Stop Calling It Deglobalisation
3 min
When the Lake Runs Low: How Shipowners Plan Around the Canal's Dry Season
4 min
Why Your Freight Is Still Invoiced in Dollars
3 min
The Bean Counters: How a Warehouse Receipt Became a Trading Weapon
4 min
How a Bicycle Gets Its Nationality
Energy
View AllLNG, bunker fuel, wind, solar and the grid. The energy that moves cargo, and the cargo that is energy.
4 min
The Ship That Runs on Its Own Cargo
3 min
Bitcoin Miners Are Buying the Gas Oil Fields Used to Burn
3 min
First Ammonia Bunkering: Six Hours, One Hose, Nobody Smelled a Thing
3 min
Four Rotor Sails and a Headwind: A Week on a Wind-Assisted Bulk Carrier
3 min
Offshore Wind's Real Bottleneck Is a Ship With Legs
3 min
Stacked to the Ceiling: What a Warehouse of Unsold Solar Panels Says About the Market
Industry
View AllFactories, warehouses and the machines inside them. Where goods are made, stored and packed before the ship.
3 min
The Customs Broker's New Colleague Reads Invoices Faster Than She Does
5 min
No One on the Bridge
3 min
Two and a Half Kilometres of Iron: Riding the Longest Ore Train
4 min
How a Bicycle Gets Its Nationality
3 min
Offshore Wind's Real Bottleneck Is a Ship With Legs
3 min
The Beach Where Ships Go to Die Is Getting a Dry Dock
Commodities
View AllCopper, lithium, grain, cocoa and gold: the raw materials, the mines and fields they come from, and the traders in between.
2 min
Live: Copper Jumps After a Landslide Cuts an Andean Mine Road
3 min
Copper's Quiet Squeeze: Why Smelters Are Paying Miners to Take Their Ore
3 min
Two and a Half Kilometres of Iron: Riding the Longest Ore Train
3 min
The Bean Counters: How a Warehouse Receipt Became a Trading Weapon
3 min
Salt, Seen From Above
3 min
The Gold Is Moving East, One Pallet at a Time
Money
View AllCurrencies, central banks and trade finance: how a cargo becomes a payment, and what the exchange rate does to it on the way.
2 min
Live: Dollar Slips as Asian Exporters Convert Their Receipts
4 min
Why Your Freight Is Still Invoiced in Dollars
3 min
Bitcoin Miners Are Buying the Gas Oil Fields Used to Burn
3 min
Yen at the Dock: What a Weak Currency Does to Japan's Shipowners
3 min
London's Marine Insurers Price In a Stronger Pound
3 min
Settled On-Chain: A Tanker Charter Paid in Stablecoins
Markets
View AllThe tape, read slowly: currencies, crypto and the freight indices, with the stories behind each move.
2 min
Live: Copper Jumps After a Landslide Cuts an Andean Mine Road
2 min
Live: Dollar Slips as Asian Exporters Convert Their Receipts
3 min
Copper's Quiet Squeeze: Why Smelters Are Paying Miners to Take Their Ore
3 min
Container Rates Fall for a Sixth Week. Here Is Where the Slack Is.
2 min
The Break Freight Index
3 min
The Copper Price Nobody Believed
Opinion
View AllArguments, not announcements. Our columnist and guests on what the trade figures do not say.
Three to read
View AllEvery Friday the editors pick three stories worth your full attention: one long, one short, one strange.
Long reads
View AllStories that took months. Read them when you have an hour, not a minute.
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