It was around the middle of 2006 that I finally got tired of shipping’s last supercycle. As a daily reporter there are only so many ways you can write: ‘Company Y makes another XX record profit’. Ultimately too, as a hack, good news does not sell. The decade that followed was far more exciting; charting an epic recession that took down many famous names in shipping.
Still, as green lights flash and plenty of sectors report very solid earnings this year I don’t mind admitting your jaded edito...