Freight + Fortune
James LightbournCavalier Shipping insights on the current shipping finance market and recent events in the shipping space.
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Investing in Bits Over Ships
The shipping market is a world in itself, and earlier this month, that world descended on Athens for the biennial Posidonia industry gathering. Posidonia is the ultimate celebration of Greek shipowners, with their larger-than-life personali...
[Media Feature: Bloomberg] Maritime Jones Act Fight Escalates With New Lobbying Push
“Both sides can be right,” said James Lightbourn, a former ship broker with experience managing hundreds of vessels who writes about maritime issues. He said the Jones Act waiver does undermine the long-term viability of domestic business...
America’s Edge Is Innovation
Today one may forget, but the U.S. maritime sector has a proud history of American private-sector companies that revolutionized the way the world uses the ocean.
1807 | Steam Navigation — North River Steamboat Company
1850 | The Cli...
Everyone Is Right About The Jones Act Waiver
The U.S. maritime industry’s unprecedented Jones Act waiver is testing the century-old U.S. cabotage law. The Jones Act is a U.S. cabotage law requiring vessels to be U.S.-flagged (and thus by definition U.S.-crewed), U.S.-owned, and U.S.-b...
Pass the Parcel
The DHT Puma and its web of commercial contracts is a complex case study on how skyrocketing supertanker rates after U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran (February 28, 2026) produced unprecedented winners and losers.
To follow the money, we ne...
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