Where will newbuild prices go in the next 18 months?
(WorldNews China)

Most analysts tell chief correspondent Jason Jiang that shipyards should be able to push through further price increases soon. Chinese shipyard reopenings remain the fly in the ointment however. Where will newbuild prices go through to next year? It´s one of shipping´s perennial $64bn questions. Get it right, and you could be reading the shipping cycle perfectly. Get it wrong and you could be out of business. In an ongoing poll for Splash, roughly four-fifths of readers think newbuild prices will continue to rise over the coming 18 months, although by how much is keenly debated. Newbuilding prices have been on an upward trajectory over the last 12 months, driven by the interplay between a...