The shipping market has a spring in its step, even as summer draws to a close. There is it seems, confidence that finally, we are emerging into the light and the beginnings of a sustained recovery. In this sense, London International Shipping Week, which will be in full swing by the time this piece is published, will be a useful thermometer with which to take the patient’s

THE US and China leaders could meet towards the end of this month to end their year-long trade row after reaching the final stages of negotiating an agreement that would push Beijing into lowering tariffs on a range of US goods, provided the Trump administration scraps broad sanctions against China, according to the Wall Street Journal