Quote of the day: In a war of ego, the loser always wins

Premium: Global Shipping Zoom Replay Ed Finley-Richardson

Morning, I did a horrible job of publicising yesterday’s call with Ed Finley-Richardson who is terrific on global shipping. Really commercial, he trades his own book from the South of France. One invite went out Wednesday, but in a horrendous rush yesterday my note on TSMC was meant to include an invitation but actually went out at 11:56am for a 12pm call and did not include the invite. “Somebody is going to get fired, and

Read More »

Taiwan Semiconductor: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

~ Again noted further to our last Sunday thematic on Australia on Sunday “Upside Down Under” — Australia’s last of two remaining refineries, Viva Energy’s Geelong facility (~120,000 b/d, ~10% of national fuel supply, ~50% of Victoria’s), had an explosion, seemingly on the old classic risk: deferred maintenance to run harder in a crisis causes accidents, and that theme will continue globally. Gets worse: Australia’s largest ammonia plant shut down too — Yara’s Pilbara facility

Read More »

Happy Hour: Shipping Guru Ed Finley-Richardson

Tomorrow at *** 12pm ET *** Ed Finley-Richardson – Shipping Guru Date/Time – Thursday, April 16th at 12pm ET Registration – Click Here Tomorrow we have Ed. I heard him on the Jack Farley podcast, (which I have also done as a guest), a couple of weeks ago. Obviously with the dynamism here in shipping he is a great guest. Flotillas of tankers heading for the US Gulf Coast. https://edfin.substack.com Source: Linkedin ~ While we are talking multi-media,

Read More »