Shipping news sentiment, November 2025
Index +0.35: 24 market news items counted (17 bullish, 7 bearish), out of 377 shipping news events from the same sources. Labels are machine-made; open the article before relying on one.
Freight rates (1)
Demand and trade (6)
- Port fees truce to begin next Monday as China pledges massive soybean buys
- China’s 12 million tonnes U.S. soybean pledge could boost bulker demand
- Simandou opens, reshaping the capesize trades
- SAMSKIP officially launches direct Morocco-Europe Service: A new era in Shortsea Shipping
- Shipping can still fly high
- Welcome to the dry bulk jungle
Geopolitics and routes (16)
- Emboldened Somali pirates spark fear in the Indian Ocean
- Key Russian Black Sea port comes under repeated attacks
- Houthis signal end to Red Sea attacks as shaky ceasefire holds
- Houthi militia ceasing attacks in Red Sea would have seismic impact on container shipping and see freight rates plunge – but questions remain unanswered.
- Splash Wrap: Flows shift again
- Ukrainian drones hit Novorossiysk as strikes on Russian Black Sea ports intensify
- Sanctions spur surge in Russian oil languishing at sea
- Iran seizes tanker transiting the Gulf of Oman
- Hijacked tanker found in Iran’s familiar holding ground
- Black Sea threat level red
- Turkish LPG carrier ignites as Black Sea security crisis deepens
- US targets sprawling Iranian shadow fleet network in latest sanctions drive
- Splash Wrap: Bridges, bombs, bottlenecks
- November 2025 Review
- Oxford flags $14bn annual hit as fragile chokepoints strain global trade
- Black Sea blasts set sanctioned tankers ablaze off Turkish coast