This at least is predictable: we start the new year with ambition and enthusiasm for new business with fresh energy only to be kicked in the teeth after a couple of weeks. For dry bulk shipping, what makes it worse is that we all expected 2022 to be a great year. True, most of us…

Yes, it’s that time of year again. If you have made New Year Resolutions, good for you. If you have managed to keep them all so far, even better. If, like me, you don’t, whether from old age, cynicism, or from bitter experience, it may be, like me, that you consider the whole exercise pointless.…

If I had told you this time last year that dry bulk freight rates would be twice to three times higher, and people would still be complaining because the market had fallen you would not have believed me. If I had told you that container shipping would be in the spotlight, not only because of…