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COVID-19 Global Trade Fallout: The container boom has lasting power
March 8, 2021
Over the course of 2021, ocean carriers will continue to operate at high capacity utilization levels, and ocean rates will remain high. Moreover, along with the need for elevated container circulation,...
Andreoli on Oil and Fuel: This time the trend is your friend
November 2, 2016
Over the last 20 years, the volume of oil consumed per unit of real GDP has contracted on a very consistent basis; consequently, the global economy could grow at more than 2%...
Andreoli on Oil and Fuel: Disagreements on the fundamentals of oil supply and demand
April 1, 2016
Google is kind enough to aggregate all the oil news stories of the day and send them to me in an e-mail. And as part of my morning routine, I...
Andreoli on Oil & Fuel: Low oil prices cooked the goose that laid the golden egg
February 1, 2016
If it feels like global oil and fuel markets are in a constant state of turmoil—it’s because they are. And as we enter 2016, markets could not be more...
Andreoli on Oil & Fuel: To ban, or not to ban exported domestic crude
May 1, 2015
In the 1970s, legislation was enacted banning the export of domestic crude oil without a special license—and unless Canada is the destination, export licenses are nearly impossible for domestic...
Andreoli on Oil & Fuel: Another boom goes bust
April 1, 2015
History suggests that the current oil glut and the associated price decline will be a temporary phenomenon, and the economics and petro-physics of unconventional oil production—fracking in particular—further...
