Trade Highlights

·     Iron Ore Grade Shift: An Opportunity for Positive Change, Not Instability Dissatisfaction with the way iron ore is priced — historically the preserve of physical buyers and sellers — has widened to financial markets as the industry prepares for a major change in its benchmark. Futures contracts dated from 2026 are to be revalued

AZIMUTH 2026: Charting the Digital Course of Maritime Management

The Indian Maritime University (IMU), a Central University under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India, has announced AZIMUTH 2026 – Academic Zeal for Innovation in Maritime: Understanding Transformation and Horizons, an international conference dedicated to digital transformation and innovation in maritime management. The event will take place at the IMU Chennai

 Shipping Spotlight

in India’s GDP data, Gita Gopinath on IMF’s C-grade WEF Summit Davos 2025: ‘We didn’t see any smoking gun evidence that there was something particularly bad about India’s GDP numbers versus any other countries,’ says Gita Gopinath. Economist Gita Gopinath has said that, during her time at the International Monetary Fund, she found no evidence

Shipping News Roundup

This transaction highlights the bizarre reality of the modern military-industrial complex; the US Government is selling weapons to an ally who intends to use them to deter a US invasion. It suggests that the Pentagon’s arms sales division operates completely independently of the White House’s foreign policy, or that the administration simply doesn’t believe Denmark

IRS Approval Marks India’s Leap in Unmanned Vessel Technology

Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) is proud to announce the successful certification of the Advanced Autonomous Navigation & Control Software (A2NCS) – the first indigenously developed autonomous navigation software suite designed for Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs). Developed jointly by the Indian Navy’s Weapons and Electrical Engineering Systems Establishment (WESEE) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), this