The annual convention of the International Bunkering Industry Association is perhaps not traditionally the highest profile event in the industry’s calendar, but with the sulphur cap on everyone’s horizon this year’s shindig has attracted a bit more interest, so we sent our chief correspondent Richard Clayton and our man with 2020 vision Anastassios Adamopoulos to Copenhagen this week to find out what all the fuss was about.

Meanwhile, over in the US it’s the LNG sector that is keeping everyone excited right now. With freight rates heading to potentially unprecedented peaks, it will be no surprise if a rash of contracting gives the shipyards something to celebrate come Lunar New Year 2019. But on the demand-side the US is increasingly interesting when it comes to gas. Our US editorial team, Eric Watkins in Los Angeles and Mark Fuechec in Boston, join Lloyd’s List editor and podcast host, Richard Meade, to discuss the view of the market from a US perspective.

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