10 Corso Como Becomes the Epicenter of Design for Milan Design Week 2025

By Elena Sendona on March 13, 2025

Milan Design Week has always been a global stage for innovation, creativity, and artistic vision, but this year, 10 Corso Como takes its role to new heights, transforming into a dynamic creative hub that brings together some of the world’s most visionary designers and boundary-pushing installations. From April 7 to April 13, 2025, this iconic concept store will serve as a platform for immersive experiences, collaborations, and experimental exhibitions,...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/13/10-corso-como-becomes-the-epicenter-of-design-for-milan-design-week-2025/

Market Report: AI names stage a mini rebound, but volatility lingers

  • Brief reprieve for UK stocks quickly fades away
  • US market volatility continues
  • Halma’s steady progress looks attractive
  • Soft RICS Housebuilder survey
  • Gold shines while traders remain cautious on Bitcoin
  • Oil prices under pressure from trade tensions

Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown:

“UK markets may have ended a 6-day losing streak in yesterday’s session but that feeling of positivity looks set to quickly fade away, with the FTSE 100 opening 0.3% lower. Volatility is the...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/13/market-report-ai-names-stage-a-mini-rebound-but-volatility-lingers/

Market report: Tariffs threaten to reignite inflation

Susannah Streeter
  • Wariness remains on markets as high tariffs on steel and aluminium imports come in.
  • US consumer price data in focus amid concerns trade policy will inflame prices.
  • Ceasefire hopes are higher, after talks between Ukraine and the US in Saudi Arabia.
  • Oil prices hover near six-month lows amid concerns about lower global growth and energy demand.
  • Balfour Beatty’s resilient results show that outgoing CEO Leo Quinn has set a high bar.

Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets,...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/12/market-report-tariffs-threaten-to-reignite-inflation/

Market Report: US recession fears send investors running for cover

Matt Britzman
  • UK markets steady at the open
  • UK retail sales benefit from Valentine’s bump
  • Boohoo revives the Debenham’s name
  • US market turmoil led by tech stock selloff
  • Brent holds its floor around $69 a barrel

Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown:

“UK markets have managed to find some footing after yesterday’s global market selloff, with the FTSE 100 broadly flat at the open. Markets are jittery and volatility seems like the only certainty while the White House pushes hard...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/11/market-report-us-recession-fears-send-investors-running-for-cover/

Winners and losers in the new tax year

Sarah Coles

It’s bad news for:

  • Employers – and their employees
  • Anyone getting a pay rise
  • Pensioners with private pensions
  • Investors with assets outside pensions and ISAs
  • Home buyers
  • Property investors
  • Non-doms

And good news for:

  • Pensioners on lower incomes
  • Lower earners

Sarah Coles, head of personal finance, Hargreaves Lansdown:

“It’s unlikely to be a happy new tax year, because far more people risk missing out as the clock ticks forward into the new year than stand to gain from any changes being...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/11/winners-and-losers-in-the-new-tax-year/

Vergina TV’s Christina Tsorba interviews John Faraclas on current International burning issues

Christina Tsorba

In 15 minutes at lunch break, Christina Tsorba put forward questions of paramount importance to allaboutshipping’s John Faraclas:

  • The tragic train accident two years ago in central Greece where 57 people lost their lives with incalculable repercussions to all.
  • The new World order following Donald Trump’s return to the White House and in particular the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the Tariffs, the environment – did I hear you say decarbonisation…
  • The importance of the...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/10/vergina-tvs-christina-tsorba-interviews-john-faraclas-on-current-international-burning-issues/

Freedom Boat Club of Spain adds three new locations

Freedom Boat Club Expands Its Presence in Spain with Three New Premium Locations in Barcelona, Costa Blanca and Mallorca 

BARCELONA, Spain – March 6, 2025Freedom Boat Club, the world’s largest boat club operator and a business of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), today announced the opening of three new premium locations in Spain, marking a significant step in the club’s expansion strategy across the Mediterranean Coast. The new locations, opening in April and May 2025, will offer...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/06/freedom-boat-club-of-spain-adds-three-new-locations/

Of Nuts and Bolts*

by John Faraclas

The best ever global social event of its kind over the last 40 years in the British capital – the administrative capital of Shipping, was by far, the 30th Anniversary Ball of HESGB at the iconic West End venue JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane, adjacent to Hyde Park.

842: the pin number unlocking success!

Breaking all previous records with 842 members, friends and guests from just over 40 nations:

  • a warm welcome and registration from twelve young volunteers supervised by...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/03/of-nuts-and-bolts/

Death of Diplomacy – part 2

by John Faraclas

This is the ideal moment to refer again to the Death of Diplomacy following our first comment which coincided with the US elections last November.

Situation on Planet Ocean and in particular the messy Ukrainian and Middle Eastern wars are not yet over and we are going to witness incalculable repercussions affecting us all and many more conflicts which are about to surface.

In certain quarters, diplomacy (so-called) is being replaced by overt bullying, insults and role-play (aimed...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/03/death-of-diplomacy-part-2/