Nike Sales Crimped by Pandemic, Shipping Issues; Forecast Disappoints More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A Nike store is shown at at outlet mall in San Clement, California, U.S., November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake By Praveen Paramasivam and Richa Naidu (Reuters) - Nike Inc's quarterly sales mi...
we noted that prices for new containers were surging and order sheets almost completely filled to capacity. Chinese manufacturers, which dominate the container market,were charging about $2,500 for a new container, up from $1,600 a year ago. Output in 2021 is forecast to leap as much as 4...
The machine learning model uses artificial neural networks and mixture density networks to forecast the movements of containers. The models are quantitatively assessed and compared to the actual availability of containers and two more conventional forecasting approaches. The results indicate that the ...
the BSI has really pushed up. And the index, as of this morning actually is over 28. So we feel like we're in a good position given a balance here with some FFA coverage going into the year. But in terms of specificity, we're ...
In SD terms, these variables are known as level variables and rate variables, respectively. These variables build the mathematical foundation of the SD model. Another type of variable is the auxiliary variable, which is associated with the current system status. It is important to note that the...
Non-monetary items that are measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not retranslated. The results and financial position of each Group entity (functional currency of none of which is a currency of a hyperinflationary economy) are translated into the presentation currency as...
Viscous resistance accounts for the great majority of the resistance of a hull moving through water. This is particularly true for slower ships, where the wave making resistance is small both in percentage of the total, and in absolute terms. However, even for faster ships (where wave making ...
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore Thursday that the U.K. was seeing an “unprecedentedly large shock to real income in this country coming from abroad,” in terms of trade issues. Bailey also defended the central bank’s more cautious a...
Drewry (2015) Ship operating costs annual review and forecast 2014/2015. Drewry Maritime Research, London Google Scholar Eefsen T, Cerup-Simonsen B (2010) Speed, carbon emissions and supply chain in container shipping. In: Proceedings of the annual conference of the international association of...
Interestingly, the dynamic hedge ratio underperforms the static hedge in terms of hedging efficiency despite the superior statistical properties of the GARCH model compared to the simple OLS model. This is a common result also for other commodities such as for wheat futures (Myers 1991) and soy...