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The Covid-19 pandemic is influencing all aspects of shipping, and is the main focus of BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand, in his Shipping Market Outlook on the three main shipping sectors.
This is not the post-2020 environment we expected. The event examined the key issues that marine fuel stakeholders from buyers to suppliers face today. How did we get here, and what can we expect in the months ahead? Is there any IMO 2020 hangover at all, or is the focus now only on dealing with the reality of new market dynamics and the changing economic landscape? Peter Sand, Chief Shipping Analyst, BIMCO provided the Shipowners' Perspective.
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From the drastic decrease in oil demand to lockdown in manufacturing, Peter provided an overview of the macroeconomic challenges being faced by individual shipping sectors and subsequently indicators of how the breakbulk and project cargo sectors are faring through the current pandemic.
BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, provided his take on the coronavirus crisis, the US-China Trade war and shipping markets in a post-pandemic environment. The Xeneta’s webinar also featured Patrik Berglund, CEO & Co-Founder of Xeneta.
Peter Sand, BIMCO’s Chief Shipping analyst, featured on MDC’s Titbits of maritime knowledge, stories and trends on 29 April 2020, where he provided his perspective on the three commercial shipping markets.
COVID-19 has imposed a wide range of issues to shipmanagers, and the ordeal continues to develop. The webinar discussed key challenges such as onboard precautions, crew changes, regulatory compliance, port and flag state inspections and technical operations. The webinar was hosted by BIMCO’s Head of Maritime Safety & Security Jakob P. Larsen and featured V.Group’s Director HSEQ & Technical, Matt Dunlop, and Spliethoff’s Head of QHSE, Marco van Rijsinge
How is shipping affected by the coronavirus pandemic and the low oil price by mid-April? The trio of analysts, Alan Murphy, CEO & Founder of Sea-Intelligence; Russel Thomson, CEO & Founder of Tradeviews and BIMCO Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, had a 2-hour marathon webinar session to try and answer those question. They covered the three main shipping segments – dry bulk, containers and tankers.
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On 31 March 2020, Peter Sand presented at The roaring twenties, a digital conference hosted by Capital Link. Sand provided his take on the state of commercial shipping markets amidst a global pandemic.
On 24 March 2020, Peter Sand featured on the Windward webinar “Protecting Maritime Borders from COVID-19”, where he presented his insight on how the shipping markets have been impacted by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
BIMCO's Christian Bækmark Schiolborg from BIMCO Marine Environment department focuses on the technical and fuel related challenges shipowners are faced with right now. Schiolborg is joined by Managing Director Rahul Choudhuri from VPS in Singapore, who shares an update on the situation in Singapore and at large.
Peter Sand, BIMCO's Chief Market Analyst, speaks about the state of the container shipping market.
Peter Sand speaks about the state of the dry bulk market.
Peter Sand, BIMCO's Chief Market Analyst, presents his views on the tanker market, especially looking at the market fundamentals.
Includes BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analysis Peter Sand, who will focus on the changes occurring in the freight market, debating a range of issues including freight rates in USD per tonnes against the TCE quotes. Who pays what in the market? Non-scrubber-fitted ships being the benchmark ship but what does that mean to the ones with a scrubber on board?
Peter Sand provides his take on the commercial aspects that matter to the future shipping industry at the Slide2Open Shipping Finance Conference on 30 January 2020
BIMCO's chief market analyst, Peter Sand gives his views on the market fallout from coronavirus and where the key risk areas lie.
BIMCO’s Ashok Srinivasan shares BIMCO’s perspective on biofouling and the upcoming developments in this sphere. As fuel prices move upwards, it is important for shipowners to ensure that their ships perform best to optimise fuel consumption. Biofouling plays an important role in this.
The webinar informs members on present situation, increased regulatory focus on biofouling and some hints on what can be expected as we move ahead. It also briefly introduces BIMCO initiatives on this topic.
Simon Doran, Managing Director of Hull Wiper, is guest speaker and shares his perspective on the problem and what solutions are available both now and in future.
Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO, talks the economic implications of the US-China phase one trade deal on CNBC.
BIMCO's chief market analyst, Peter Sand, gives his view on the current state of the tanker market.
BIMCO's chief market analyst, Peter Sand, gives his view on the current state of the container shipping market.
BIMCO's chief market analyst, Peter Sand, gives his view on the current state of the dry bulk market.
BIMCO's Ai Cheng Foo presents the IMSBC Code, potential pitfalls and use
BIMCO President, Sadan Kaptanoglu, has spoken to the national broadcaster in Japan, NHK, on several issues in shipping such as environment and security.
BIMCO's Christian Schiolborg presents a range of things shipowners can do in the final weeks before the start of the 0.50% global suplhur cap. Crew awareness is for example still possible to work on.
Peter Sand of BIMCO discusses what's driving the tremendous spike in global tanker shipping rates on CNBC.
BIMCO's chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand, goes through his latest shipping market report. This video covers the tanker market.
BIMCO's chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand, goes through his latest shipping market report. This video covers the dry bulk market.
BIMCO's chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand, goes through his latest shipping market report. This video covers the container market.
The Splash podcast features BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand, in the hot seat and he expertly faces a barrage of tough questions.
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Multiple companies take extra measures to ensure they are doing business safely, says Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO from CNBC
BIMCO's chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand, goes through his latest shipping market report.
Subcommittee members Søren Berg, J. Lauritzen, Donald McLean, Lisnave & Donald Chard, BIMCO discuss and answer questions from the viewers regarding the newly revised REPAIRCON 2018 and MINREPCON 2018 forms in this webinar.
BIMCO's Peter Sand presents his views on the Q1 2019 container market.
BIMCO's chief analyst, Peter Sand, takes a look at the crude and product tanker markets.
BIMCO's Chief Market Analyst, Peter Sand, presents his views on the dry bulk sector for Q1 2019.
Lloyd’s List Container’s editor James Baker talks to BIMCO chief shipping analyst Peter Sand, Sea-Intelligence Consulting chief executive Lars Jensen and Platts freight analyst Alex Younevitch about the outlook for container shipping in 2019.
On 24 January in Athens, Peter Sand gave a presentation on the three main shipping markets, crude and product tankers, dry bulk and containers. He discussed the trends and drivers in these markets, including supply and demand factors and the outlook. Peter Sand also touched upon the upcoming 2020 Sulphur Cap and its commercial implications for the shipping industry.
BIMCO's Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, dives into the outlook and condition of the dry bulk shipping sector as of November 2018.
BIMCO Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, presents his view on the container shipping market for the fall of 2018 and outlook towards 2019.
BIMCO's Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand, dives into the outlook and condition of the oil tanker shipping sector as of November 2018.
Peter Sand talks about Iran sanctions and the oil market from CNBC.
Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO, talks to Alex Younevitch, managing editor for EMEA shipping at S&P Global Platts, about the container market and the challenges that it is facing from the escalating US-China trade war, the upcoming IMO 2020 regulation, and tonnage oversupply.
Peter Sand, BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, has completed his Q3 market report and goes through some of the key takeaways in a very unpredictable market situation.
China imported no US oil in August because of trade tensions, analyst says from CNBC.
Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO joins Lloyd's List special Posidonia edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast to talk about the challenges and the future prospects for the shipping markets, including the 2020 global sulphur cap experiment, and why we all need to focus on Indian demand.
Agency appointments are often agreed over the phone or by email. But with ship operations becoming ever more complex, there is a growing need for a standard agreement that clearly sets out the services to be performed by the agents and the liabilities and responsibilities of both parties.
A panel discusses the newly published BIMCO / FONASBA General Agency Agreement and explains why agents and their principals would benefit from using it.
Peter Sand of BIMCO discusses the impact of a trade war on the shipping industry on CNBC.
Shipping industry outlook by Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at BIMCO.
A webinar, hosted by the Nautical Institute discussing cyber security in the maritime industry. BIMCO’s Aron Sørensen and Phil Tinsley explained key topics of cyber security and a Q&A followed, which answered viewers concerns.
Peter Sand, BIMCO's Chief Shipping Analyst, talks to Grant Hunter about the latest update of BIMCO's Road to Recovery analysis of the shipping market
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FONASBA General Manager, Jonathan Williams, provides an overview of the FONASBA Quality Standard Certification scheme for ship agents.
Hosted by BIMCO's Pernille Kærvad Jacobsen, Manager, Contracts & Clauses and featuring a panel of members involved in the development of the new form, the webinar introduced the new agency appointment agreement, and explained the reasons for developing the agreement and responded to participants’ questions about the form.
A panel of four representatives of the subcommittee that developed the term sheet for bilateral ship financing transactions introduce the term sheet, its background and content.
This webinar hosted by Giles Noakes and Grant Hunter is about End User Certificates for weapons used by private maritime security companies on board ships.
Anna Wollin (BIMCO), Chris Kidd (Ince and Co) and Donald Chard (Arbitrator and BIMCO consultant) provide an overview of the Standard Novation Agreements.
Interview with Peter Sand, BIMCO Chief Shipping Analyst about the "Road to Recovery" dry cargo market analysis. The interview took place at BIMCO House on 10 June 2016 with Grant Hunter.
The hour long webinar discusses how the anti-corruption clause can help owners and charterers tackle corruption issues through a practical and collaborative process to resist demands for "facilitation payments".
The Clause is analysed by three members of the team who wrote it. Inga Froysa of Klaveness, Tim Springett of the UK Chamber of Shipping and Karl Even Rygh of Nordisk in Oslo share their views on how the Clause is intended to work and discuss the practical aspects of implementing anti-corruption procedures to ensure compliance.
A one-hour long webinar session on the IMSBC Code, highlighting two very relevant issues for members; i.e. on “How to carry bulk cargoes safely – a shared risk?” and “ What is it – identifying cargo hazards under the IMSBC Code”.
On 8 January 2015, Bloomberg Intelligence held a webinar with BIMCO’s Chief Shipping analyst Peter Sand and Jonathan Chappell from Evercore ISI.
During the webinar Peter Sand shared BIMCO’s view on the dry bulk and tanker markets as well as on the current macro economic factors influencing the world of shipping.
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