We at CTM are honoured to have been nominated for this year’s Crew Welfare Week’s Dry Bulk Operator Award organised by Safety4Sea. So why should you cast your vote for us? Well under our management, we have over 1,100 seafarers, an average crew retention rate of 99% and alongside…

The first quarter of the year is typically a weak quarter for the Capesize market because the first quarter coincides with newbuilding vessel deliveries, that sometimes get delayed from the end of the previous year in order to benefit from a younger year of build. The first quarter also coincides…

This year to celebrate the Day of the Seafarer we have put together a video packed with interviews from our crews from some of the vessels under our management showing you a glimpse of their lives at sea. Last year (2020), crews worldwide faced one of the toughest times…

In its May 2021 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) Report, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its forecast for the upcoming Marketing Year (MY) which is expected to exceed 2020/2021’s record highs of 598 million tonnes (for major exporters). In this report we take a look…

We are pleased to welcome Carlos Pena, CTM’s Chief Commerical Officer (CCO) to the podcast for our latest episode to talk about CTM’s Supramax pool, the Supramax Revenue Sharing Agreement (RSA), which is the largest and most flexible Supramax pool in the market, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic…

On the 22nd of April during Singapore’s Maritime Week at the “Singapore Shipping Forum 2021: Shipping Post Pandemic” conference, our CEO John Michael Radziwill was invited by Andrew Gallagher of Moore Stephens LLP to give a keynote speech. Mr. Radziwill began his speech by paying homage and giving thanks to…

The environment and its protection are extremely important for CTM as our CEO Mr John Michael Radziwill has said countless times, including during our interview with him on our podcast and also at last year’s Posidonia where he said: “the environment is everything”. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise…

On the morning of Tuesday, 23rd of March 2021 traffic on the Suez Canal* ground to a halt. As the M/V Ever Given, a 20,150 teu container built in 2018, accidentally ran aground after she was hit by a “suspected large gust of wind”. She is now blocking the canal…

In our second podcast we invited three members of our commercial team to a virtual roundtable to get their views on the current state of the market. We were pleased to welcome to the podcast: Alessandro Canzian our Capesize Director, Andrea Novellini Supramax Commercial Trader and Graziano Verani Masin…